how to encrypt the password column

Question

I have user table in SQL Server 2008 r2. Nothing there is encrypted yet but I would like to at the least encrypt the passwords until the app is ready that will handle this b

Answer 1

Encryption & Decryption examples can be found here:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms179331.aspx

Hashing example can be found here:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms174415.aspx