note 80388 deleted from function.crypt by joey

Note Submitter: Maarten ---- The previous poster (whatnet) is confused about having to store the (random) value used as the original salt when the password is first encrypted. This is not necessary because the output of crypt() includes the salt used to do the encryption, so the encrypted password you store in your user database is exactly what you would feed it back in later. In order to validate a password, just do what the example above suggests: <?php if (crypt($user_input, $encrypted_password) == $encrypted_password) { echo "Password verified!"; } ?>