This is the first of what may be a couple of posts about my presentation from ColdFusion Summit East 2023, which was held in April in Washington, DC.
Let's talk about ColdFusion and encryption. Specifically -- about the CFMX_COMPAT algorithm. The encrypt() function was introduction in ColdFusion 4 (ca. November 1998), and CFMX_COMPAT was the only algorithm available. The release of ColdFusion 7 (ca. February 2005) added native support for AES, 3DES, DES, and Blowfish. But CFMX_COMPAT remains the default algorithm used by the encrypt() function.