On Dec 11, 2012, at 11:08 AM, lelandj <[email protected]> wrote:
> Perl uses a one way encryption, so if a user losses their password, they have
> to create a new one. Even I can't tell a customer what their password is;
> because, in Perl their is no decryption mechanism.
I know the term is used that way, but technically "encryption" implies
that "decryption" is possible. "One-way encryption" is called hashing.
-- Ed Leafe
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