on Sat, 01 Jun 2002 05:02:09 GMT, Teresa Raymond wrote:
> I thought that I would need to decrypt to check to see if the
> password submitted was the correct password, please explain why this
> is not so...
>
You will find more information when you type
perldoc -f crypt
Essentially, when you want to check a submitted password, you encrypt it
and compare the result with the encrypted version of the real password,
which you have stored somewhere.
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felix
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