How secure are extensions like URL Encoder?

[Shawn]

I'd like to make some sort of online scoreboard/leaderboard for my games. I've downloaded tutorials with php scripts to make it myself. They use a combination of URL Encoder and Live Receiver objects.

I'm just curious if these are really secure, or it is not that hard to hack them.

I mean granted pretty much anything can be hacked, and I probably wouldn't have to worry about a small time indie game scoreboard being hacked (and even if it was, wouldn't be the end of the world especially if I backed up the database regularly).

But I was curious just how secure these extensions actually are. Again, I'm not worried about having some sort of military grade security lol, but I would like to prevent the average script kiddie from wrecking things.

[Jeff]

Its pretty hard to hack if you use an MD5 hash on your submitted data.

There is a good tutorial about this here:
http://www.clickteam.com/epicenter/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=114131

If you need some help getting going.

Lets not have a long thread about the security of an MD5 Hash
For protecting data to an online score board its works very good and I haven't actually seen take the time to break it in this type of usage.

Just use a very long and very odd key -- Don't send the key in your URL and for an extra security you might even consider encrypting your key inside your application. I never go to that extreme but you could.

[Shawn]

Its pretty hard to hack if you use an MD5 hash on your submitted data.

There is a good tutorial about this here:
http://www.clickteam.com/epicenter/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=114131

If you need some help getting going.

Lets not have a long thread about the security of an MD5 Hash
For protecting data to an online score board its works very good and I haven't actually seen take the time to break it in this type of usage.

Just use a very long and very odd key -- Don't send the key in your URL and for an extra security you might even consider encrypting your key inside your application. I never go to that extreme but you could.

Okay cool. Thanks for the link and tips! Appreciate it.