On 12/20/2011 5:17 PM, John Weller wrote:
> I have a routine which pads the password to a fixed length of, say, 20
> characters with a standard string of punctuation.  I then take the ASCII
> value of the first character and use it as a seed for a RAND() function.  I
> take the resulting fraction and multiply it by the ASCII value of the second
> character then take the integer value and use it as the seed for another
> RAND() repeating until the end of the string is reached.  The final fraction
> is then multiplied by 10,000,000 and the integer stored.  When a user enters
> their password I repeat the process and compare the result with the stored
> value.  I defy anyone to recover the password from the stored value :-).
>
> If you want the code let me know.


Good Lord, man....impressive!


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