Re: Displaying Password
| From: | Andy Shellam | Date: | Tue, 22 Dec 2009 22:49:24 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Displaying Password | ||
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Hi Karl,
>
> Yes you are correct. I do not store a plan text password.
Great stuff - so many systems I've seen use plain-text passwords it's little wonder
there's so much data theft.
> If you cant read the encrypted text, you cant decrypt it right?
Wrong. There are two-way encryption methods requiring the use of a common key, and an
initialization vector for some protocols - see the mcrypt library which PHP can use (I had a play
around with it quite recently.)
http://uk2.php.net/manual/en/function.mcrypt-decrypt.php
Regards,
Andy