Re: vbscript

[Marco Aldegheri <marco2 () argentea it>]

I don' know about a vbscript implementation of the MD5 algoritm but,
if you are using vbscript server side in ASP based web applications and 
you need an MD5 function you can easily include a _javascript_ MD5 
implementation code (easy to find on the internet) at the top of your 
asp page and use the MD5 function as it would have been written in vbscript.


Example:

example.asp file:
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<%<!-- #INCLUDE FILE="md5.inc" -->
....
pippomd5=MD5(pippo)
... %>
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md5.inc included file:
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<SCRIPT RUNAT=SERVER Language="JavaScript">
function MD5(anystring)
{....
}
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The 1996 Henri Torgemane MD5 javascript implementation seemed to work well.
Another more efficient way is to create a COM component compiling an 
easily available C source code and call it from the vbscript source.

Hope it helps...

I would like to take this opportunity to thank everybody in the 
newsgroup for the interesting postings.

ing. Marco Aldegheri, CISSP



Cade Cairns wrote:
> Hello list,
>
> I am looking for resources related to vbscript security and was hoping
> some of you might have some to share. Also, I am curious if anyone might
> have some idea of how to generate even weak cryptographic quality random
> numbers or knowledge of a good MD5 implementation. Any help would be
> greatly appreciated.
>
> Regards,
> Cade Cairns