Re: crypt() with decription

I can only agree Bill and Elizabeth. @Nishantha: Do you only need a password-recovery function for registered users? Then simply create an random-string, save it in an extra column of your Data Stock and give it to the user. Also you can - as Elizabeth wrote - use an two-way-decryption and give the user the decrypted version. But that'll open a huge securityhole in your application. Fact: Users will use the same password in different systems. So first: Can and will the User trust you? Second: Can you trust the people that can look into the database/file/stock? Third: Can you by 100% trust your sourcecode, so that never a third party hacks your system and decryps all passwords? I would ever prefer an one-way-function when the project afford it. -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Best Regards Oliver Espeter ""Bill Bolte"" <billb@hightouchinc.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:013FC758865CF645976E313AEB6A709905FB9A24@htmail.hightouchinc.com... There isn't a way to un-encrypt it, it's a one-way encryption (http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.crypt.php). The user will have to recreate their password. -----Original Message----- From: Nishantha Pradeep [mailto:nishantha@bcsc.lk] Sent: Monday, December 03, 2007 9:15 PM To: php Subject: [PHP-WIN] crypt() with decription I used php crypt() function to encript password (as a simple encryption) but how I decrypt that encrypted password because I want to send the password to the user when it requested.