[COLUG] Enterprise Two Factor Authentication: Avoiding NIH

[Jim]

Earlier I wrote:

> Better yet, instead of reinventing the wheel and NIH, 
> why not use some other characterification function, 
> perhaps, some MIME-ish characterification function? 

ala base64_encode()

Hence something like: 

   $j=translate(base64_encode(itos(hexdec(md5($j)))),"base 64 chars",$encoding);

Where itos converts int to string of bytes (that might include NUL chars) 
and where translate replaces each character of the first argument 
that can be found in the second argument with 
with the corresponding character from the third argument.