Hi,
I don't have too much experience with encryption, so here's my question.
Say I want to encrypt a password. I make sure it can't be empty or under a given string length (say 8 characters), and it's case sensitive. If I use the PHP crypt() method for this, and I set my salt to be a specific substring of the original password (e.g. the 4th and 5th characters of the password), and afterwards scramble the result a bit (like relocating substrings or reversing the string), would it then be easy / possible / quite hard / just not done for anyone with the right knowhow to retrieve my original password?
Is crypt() a good method, or would I be better off using something else?
Thnx