Re: MD5
| From: | Steve Nelson | Date: | Mon, 13 Nov 2000 22:53:35 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: MD5 | ||
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MD5 doesn't decrypt, it's used for a comparison, good for storing
passwords in a database, because you can validate whether someone
entered the correct password, but if someone gained access to your db
they wouldn't see the passwords.
make sense?
Steve Nelson
http://www.SecretAgents.com
Tools for Fusebox Developers
Matt wrote:
>
> This may be an dumb question...
>
> After I encrypt a string using the md5() function, how do I decrypt it back
> into the original string?
>
> --Thanks
>
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