Thanks for your thoughts mrichmon. I have actually just solved the problem which I'll write here in case anyone else has this problem.
I wrote a CF page on the same server that expects the login details in a query string. The CF page checks the database using the CF encrypt function, and returns either a "success" or "failure" in the html. The relevant part of my ASP.NET code looks something like,
Dim objWebClient As New System.Net.WebClient
Dim strURL As String = "http://servera/foldera/fo
Dim bytHTML() As Byte = objWebClient.DownloadData(
Dim objUTF8 As New System.Text.UTF8Encoding
Dim strHTML As String = objUTF8.GetString(bytHTML)
If InStr(strHTML, "failure") Then
Return False
Else
Return True
End If
Cheers,
Malcolm
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by: mrichmonPosted on 2005-10-05 at 16:39:00ID: 15026867
No.
There are only 2 ways I can think of - neither have I done.
1) Write a webservice to check the password - not very secure, but should work
2) Purchase/Write an encryption algorithm that has wrappers for both Cold Fusion and ASP.NET (whichever language you are using) and then use that to encrypt so that both are using the same encryption.