RE: [PHP-DB] password encryption
| From: | peter at westergaard dot ca | Date: | Thu, 18 Nov 2004 17:14:56 +0000 |
| Subject: | RE: [PHP-DB] password encryption | ||
| References: | 1 | Groups: | php.db |
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Quoting "Gryffyn, Trevor" <TGryffyn@air-cargo-inc.com>:
> If you want to be cheesy, you can also use something like an MD5 has on
> "dog" and get whatever it gets.... Then every time someone enters "dog"
> it always ends up with the same MD5 hash.
How is using MD5 cheesy? I've implemented exactly that solution a number of
times. Admittedly, only for a very small site, mainly as the 'site content
update' password.
-P
ps. and on another note, why am I in the list of direct addressees here?