Re: crypt/Password
| From: | Jim Winstead | Date: | Sun, 03 Feb 2002 16:55:32 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: crypt/Password | ||
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Phil <travelling_phil@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Thanx, sounds like the way to go.
> Still curious though whether there is anyway at all to get the original
> password back to the user?
not without storing it unencrypted or cracking the password with a
dictionary attack. as you said, the php crypt() function and mysql's
password() function are one-way algorithms.
jim