Re: [PHP] Crypt Function-- Encryption and Decryption

2004-11-21 Thread Rens Admiraal
, 2004 8:52 PM *To:* [EMAIL PROTECTED] *Cc:* Mulley, Nikhil; [EMAIL PROTECTED] *Subject:* Re: [PHP] Crypt Function-- Encryption and Decryption What would be the use of a hash if it was easy to recover ? You can use it by storing the hash of a password, en when the user

Re: [PHP] Crypt Function-- Encryption and Decryption

2004-11-21 Thread Rens Admiraal
What would be the use of a hash if it was easy to recover ? You can use it by storing the hash of a password, en when the user supplies you his password in a script, you hash it again... and compare those two hashes... Trying to recover the value from which the hash is the result is called crack

Re: [PHP] Crypt Function-- Encryption and Decryption

2004-11-21 Thread Jon-EIrik Pettersen
Mulley, Nikhil wrote: Hi All, I have a password file , which has all the passwords words encrypted with the Crypt Function I know that Crypt uses one-way algorithm to generate the encryptions and PHP has no Decrypt function , ( but can it be developed to have one ?) But I am eager to know whethe

[PHP] Crypt Function-- Encryption and Decryption

2004-11-21 Thread Mulley, Nikhil
Hi All, I have a password file , which has all the passwords words encrypted with the Crypt Function I know that Crypt uses one-way algorithm to generate the encryptions and PHP has no Decrypt function , ( but can it be developed to have one ?) But I am eager to know whether it is really im