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' Feb/2003 - hcorrea@visionds.com
'
' This class encrypts and decrypts values. Basically
' it is a wrapper for some of the .NET cryptography
' classes.

' Code for this class was originally developed by
' Paolo Miserini [@datamat.it].
' Reference: http://www.dotnet247.com/247reference/msgs/13/65847.aspx
'
' To do list:
' Port to VFP, test with dataevents.
' We should probably create shared version of Deciper and Ciper methods.
'
' Usage sample:
' Dim Cipher As New Cipher()
' Me.txtOriginalValue.Text = Cipher.DeCipher(Me.txtEncrypted.Text, Me.txtKey.Text)
'
'
' Dim Cipher As New Cipher()
' Me.txtEncrypted.Text = Cipher.Cipher(Me.txtOriginalValue.Text, Me.txtKey.Text)
'

Imports System.Text
Imports System.Security.Cryptography

Public Class Cipher

Dim DefaultEncryptionKey As String
Dim des As New TripleDESCryptoServiceProvider()
Dim hashmd5 As New MD5CryptoServiceProvider()

Public Sub New()
' Default encryption/decryption key. You should
' provide your own when you instanciate the class or
' pass a key value to Cipher and Decipher methods.
DefaultEncryptionKey = "DefaulEncryptionKeyYouShouldProvideYourOwn"
End Sub

Public Function DeCipher(ByVal TextToDecipher As String) As String
Return DeCipher(TextToDecipher, DefaultEncryptionKey)
End Function

Public Function DeCipher(ByVal TextToDecipher As String, ByVal EncryptionKey As String) As String
Dim DeCipheredValue As String = Nothing
des.Key = hashmd5.ComputeHash(ASCIIEncoding.ASCII.GetBytes(EncryptionKey))
des.Mode = CipherMode.ECB
Dim desdencrypt As ICryptoTransform = des.CreateDecryptor()
Dim buff() As Byte = Convert.FromBase64String(TextToDecipher)
DeCipheredValue = ASCIIEncoding.ASCII.GetString(desdencrypt.TransformFinalBlock(buff, 0, buff.Length))
Return DeCipheredValue
End Function

Public Function Cipher(ByVal TextToCipher As String) As String
Return Cipher(TextToCipher, DefaultEncryptionKey)
End Function

Public Function Cipher(ByVal TextToCipher As String, ByVal EncryptionKey As String) As String
Dim CipheredValue As String = Nothing
des.Key = hashmd5.ComputeHash(ASCIIEncoding.ASCII.GetBytes(EncryptionKey))
des.Mode = CipherMode.ECB
Dim desdencrypt As ICryptoTransform = des.CreateEncryptor()
Dim MyASCIIEncoding = New ASCIIEncoding()
Dim buff() As Byte = ASCIIEncoding.ASCII.GetBytes(TextToCipher)
CipheredValue = Convert.ToBase64String(desdencrypt.TransformFinalBlock(buff, 0, buff.Length))
Return CipheredValue
End Function

End Class

"N-tier software is easier to maintain, but more expensive to build the first time. So if you want the job, you have to go with the simplest technology that does the job, and then hope that they'll like your work and pay you what it will cost to come back and do the job right. Few clients, and especially few clients in the FoxPro world, are willing to pay extra for features that only save money later. A product like this allows us to do it right the first time, a luxury we rarely had in the past. I'm comfortable with this market of smaller companies and tighter budgets, but I'd like to give them first-class software. A framework allows me to do so. "

" IdeaBlade, an amazing framework for .NET from a company called ObjectWare "...

- Les Pinter 9/03

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SIGMOD Record - web edition / December 2000 Exciting stuff!

At the bottom of the page, New TPC Benchmarks for Decision Support and Web Commerce.

I made a shot across the bow on using the TPCH benchmark as a suite for testing compliance with the new SQL enhancements. Seemed to fly, so it's been the bulk of my work the last few days. Currently parsing the answer sets so they can be imported into a cursor for comparison with results. This may sound trivial, but the results sets are non delimited data dumps with one record spanning 3-4 rows. I've found lots of opensource and academic uses of TPCH, but no one seems to make available the complied version of DB_GEN or a normalized set of answers. ARGH!

Okay, busy blogging day...

Here is another along the lines of HotScripts.com and SourceForge. The Code Project - Free Source Code and Tutorials While I understand the need for a viable business model to emerge for Open Source to be the "One True Way", when I hit sites like this -- it boggles the mind to think of how much work is saved by utilizing OPC (other peoples code). You down with OPC?

The whispering wheel is an electrical motor turned inside out with a wheel mounted on it. This application is for a city bus in the Netherlands. The motor is the wheel, the only combustion engine is the generator that charges the batteries. Nice!

Eric Meijer's MSR page Check out MSR in general too...

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