Password as Hash string

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#1

i just made an app that makes the password you type in the dialog box to a hash string

set myPass1 to text returned of (display dialog "Type in your password" default answer "" default button 1 buttons {"Cancel", "Next"} with title "Password Encrypter" with hidden answer)
tell application "Terminal"
	activate
	{visible:false}
	set myPass2 to word 4 of (do shell script "md5 -s" & myPass1)
	display dialog "Your Encrypted Password: " default answer "" & myPass2 buttons {"Cancel", "Ok"} default button 1 with icon note with title "Password Encrypter"
end tell

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#2

Neat. The script needs a space after the -s in the shell script, and shell scripts don’t need the terminal to run, so the script below is a compressed version of yours with the “Next” and “OK” buttons made the defaults. I also added a bit so you could copy the result to the clipboard for use elsewhere.

set myPass1 to text returned of (display dialog "Type in your password" default answer "" default button 2 buttons {"Cancel", "Next"} with title "Password Encrypter" with hidden answer)
set myPass2 to word 4 of (do shell script "md5 -s " & myPass1)
set B to button returned of (display dialog "Your Encrypted Password: " & return & return & myPass2 buttons {"To Clipboard", "Ok"} default button 2 with title "Password Encrypter")
if B is "To Clipboard" then set the clipboard to myPass2

I assume you would then copy the encrypted password and change the password to some account to match. Then you could write a script to use this one to accept a plain text password and use the encrypted version instead.

#3

Thanks and i also made it in xcode if you want you can download it an check it out

http://www.mediafire.com/?n5pibqccd3vz83g

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AppleScript: Version 2.3 (118)
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Operating System: Mac OS X (10.6)

#4

Some minor improvements :

Use:

set x to do shell script "md5 -q -s " & quoted form of “it’s”

You’ll see that with quoted form I can make an md5 hash of a string with special characters, your will throw an error. Then I use -q as an option so I don’t need the word 4 command.

An improved version of Adam’s script will be

set myPass1 to text returned of (display dialog "Type in your password" default answer "" default button 1 buttons {"Cancel", "Next"} with title "Password Encrypter" with hidden answer)
set myPass2 to (do shell script "md5 -q -s " & quoted form of myPass1)
set B to button returned of (display dialog "Your Encrypted Password: " & return & return & myPass2 buttons {"To Clipboard", "Ok"} default button 2 with title "Password Encrypter")
if B is "To Clipboard" then set the clipboard to myPass2