On 12/20/2011 5:16 PM, Ed Leafe wrote: > You should never store passwords. Instead, you should store a hash of > the password. When the user logs in, you hash the supplied password and > compare it to the stored hash. If they match, the password was valid.
That's what I'm attempting to do....but with a checksum. So I should use the HASH() function instead and store the 64 byte character string instead of the 10 digit # generated from the checksum? -- Mike Babcock, MCP MB Software Solutions, LLC President, Chief Software Architect http://mbsoftwaresolutions.com http://fabmate.com http://twitter.com/mbabcock16 _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
