title: Possible to hash a value in microsoft access?
body: <p>I am working on a simple database using Microsoft Access 2013 with a MySQL backend via ODBC. I want to include some very basic form of user tracking, and I plan on doing this by prompting users for a username and password upon opening the database and comparing these to values in MySQL. Security is NOT a big issue -- I just want something that works and ideally doesn't rely on storing passwords in plaintext. Is there some easy way in Access to calculate the hash of a string so that I can avoid relying on plaintext storage of passwords?</p>