On Mon, 17 Feb 2003, Vernon wrote: >I'm thinking that the MD5 function more than likely encrypts a password to >store into a database, and when you log in using the MD5 function it will >simply encrypt the value being passed along again the same way. Now I'm >wondering what happens when I user has lost there password and needs to >retrieve it, there is no way to reverse the process is there?
md5 is one-way encryption. I use a password 'hint' field in conjunction with md5. -- Greg Donald http://destiney.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
