Encryption

[Slashmore]

Is it worth adding encryption where its possible?

[dbest]

Of course it is.

But you would need to consider the over-head involved with it.

What is it that you want to encrypt?

[Slashmore]

I've never encrypted anything so I'm not sure what is needed, stuff in the db, links or stuff link the activation link/code players get in thier emails.

[Sunchaser]

I would encrypt only passwords. In italy for the privacy law, you should encrypt also member sensible informations like credit card number, telephone number etc, but i don't think you are collecting them in a pbbg game.

[dbest]

In my implementation of an PBBG, I am currently only encrypting the user passwords. I have only completed the login/register feature of the PBBG so that might not be a good example.

You could encode the link that you send to a user's email so that they can register themselves.

[JGadrow]

Are you speaking of one-way encryption or two-way encryption? Two-way allows for decryption whereas one-way does not.

Passwords should be one-way encrypted. Any sensitive information should be two-way encrypted with separate keys and salts for each user. However, I would assume the only real sensitive information that you're going to be storing is the user's password.

[Slashmore]

I'm gonna try and encrypt anything that needs to be, chances I will get hacked once my game is online but thats part of it.

Could somone give me a good one for one way and two ways?

[JGadrow]

Here's a good read on one-way encryption (also known as Cryptographic hash function).

Towards the end, there is a table with various types of encryption and their related properties.

[Slashmore]

Thanks. =)