Re^4: encrypt passwords

[fishmonger]

What makes you think he would need to decrypt it to get the original plain text password?

It's far more likely and common to use 1 way encryption where a plain text password is supplied then encrypted to compaire it with the stored encrypted password.

[afoken]

What makes you think he would need to decrypt it to get the original plain text password?

Re^2: encrypt passwords shows database name, host name, username, password. That looks like logins for remote systems that need the plain text password.

Alexander