Excerpts from roconnor's message of Sun Dec 27 04:25:05 +0100 2009:
> Perhaps a dumb question, but why not just store salted hashed passwords? 
> Then who cares if it ends up world readable?

Because the target application may not support this.
Maybe it's even you (the admin) who wants to lookup passwords again :)

Marc Weber
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