Walter,
Tuesday, May 14, 2002, 4:59:15 PM, you wrote:
WDF> I am trying Mysql Password() function, to encrypt password in a a
WDF> user/password
WDF> table,
WDF> it works fine both ways; it is to say, when I submit a login
WDF> (user/password)
WDF> combination it fetches the pair ok.
WDF> My question is, as I read in the documentation, that the process is
WDF> irreversible, how can I deal with the fact
WDF> that a user can forget his password, if I will not be able to retrieve the
WDF> original string, because what i can see is the encrypted data
WDF> is there a workaround to deal with this, either than storing in a separeted
WDF> table the original password string (not encrypted), or shall i simply not
WDF> use this function ?
What about using another functions for encrypting password and user
name, f.e. ENCODE()/DECODE() or DES_ENCRYPT()/DES_DECRYPT()?
Look at:
http://www.mysql.com/doc/M/i/Miscellaneous_functions.html
WDF> thanks in advance to any suggestion
WDF> Walter
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