[Progress Communities] [Progress OpenEdge ABL] Forum Post: How to encrypt/decrypt character strings and store them as character strings in databases

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Dear all, I would like to encrypt email addresses and store them into database character fields. When I need the email I have to decrypt the string to its original email address. Using the encrypt/decrypt functions I get memptr and not character strings. Using the encrypt function the input can be a character and output is a memptr. Could try to get the character string out of this memptr to store this character string. Using the decrypt function the input can be a memptr. So I could put the encrypted character string into it? Output is a memptr and extract the character out of it. Question will this be the original email address? Who has some experience with this? Could it work like this? Regards, Peter Wokke

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