Simple Authentication

Hi All

I am very new to Java with MySQL and to SQL language in general. I am trying to create a very simple program that takes a user id and password and 'authenticates' the user using a table in an SQL DB.

I looking for some help as to how best to do this. Can I simply use:

CREATE TABLE users (

id CHAR(10) NOT NULL,

passwordcrypt CHAR(20) NOT NULL,

PRIMARY KEY (id)

);

but then how do i handle the encyption of the password?

Or can i simply do this hashing technique? But is there a Java class that will simply handle this? All I want to be able to do is , in the simplest possible way, securley authenticate a user using Java and MySQL....is this possible?

[727 byte] By [java_newbea] at [2007-11-27 9:30:26]