Re: MD5 Passwords (How it works?)
| From: | Jason Wong | Date: | Tue, 18 Feb 2003 05:10:32 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: MD5 Passwords (How it works?) | ||
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On Tuesday 18 February 2003 01:03, Greg Donald wrote:
> md5 is one-way encryption. I use a password 'hint' field in conjunction
> with md5.
It is not an encryption at all -- it's a hash. Encryption implies a
corresponding decryption, so a one-way encryption is either useless or an
oxymoron.
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