Re: [PHP] Security with XML

2002-07-10 Thread Chris Earle
Are you telling me that you cannot look at "37b51d194a7513e45b56f6524f2d51f2" and see that the is the same as "bar"? ... Just kidding. Thanks for the tip, that makes a lot of sense. "Andrew Chase" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > You could store

RE: [PHP] Security with XML

2002-07-10 Thread Andrew Chase
You could store passwords as MD5 hashes which of course is NOT really encryption, but it would obfuscate the users' passwords. They would still be vulnerable to social engineering ("Hmm, I'll try his wife's name, then his dog's name, then his phone#," etc) and brute force ("I'm going to run every