PHP Installation - Re: [PHP-INSTALL] Password Script needed

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Re: [PHP-INSTALL] Password Script needed - Not sure if this

Frank Bax

2005-03-26, 3:56 pm

At 11:00 AM 3/26/05, Jimbob wrote:
>I have an input script which is a bare minimum for hiding the password the
>user enters and stores and encrypted password. However, I am unable to
>retrieve the encrypted pw and decrypt it as I do not have the code for the
>decrypt function. Does anybody know of available scripts for password
>input, verification and retrieval?

Yes, this is the wrong list for this question, but I don't know where the
right one is.

Decrypting a password is a serious security problem. Instead of trying to
decrypt the stored password, you should encrypt the entered password and
compare that with the encrypted stored password.

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