At 15:14 -0400 1/16/06, Xiaobo Chen wrote:
Hi, all

I am trying to retrieve the password for one user in my database. When I
say this:

select password from user;

The returned value is not human readable. Any one know how to converted it
to readable format?

The encryption is one-way, by design.  You cannot recover the original
password.

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