Re: MD5 Passwords (How it works?)
| From: | Greg Donald | Date: | Mon, 17 Feb 2003 17:03:21 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: MD5 Passwords (How it works?) | ||
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On Mon, 17 Feb 2003, Vernon wrote:
>I'm thinking that the MD5 function more than likely encrypts a password to
>store into a database, and when you log in using the MD5 function it will
>simply encrypt the value being passed along again the same way. Now I'm
>wondering what happens when I user has lost there password and needs to
>retrieve it, there is no way to reverse the process is there?
md5 is one-way encryption. I use a password 'hint' field in conjunction
with md5.
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Greg Donald
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