Red Wingate <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
    on Wednesday, June 30, 2004 9:33 AM said:

> Hashing ... but i guess he wants to protected the password
> needed to access the DB not a PW stored in the DB.

you probably understand this already but for those who don't i would
like to say:

right, but the point with hashing is that even if the hashes are
retrieved/stolen it will take time (possibly too long) for the password
itself to be recovered/discovered.


chris.

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