RE: [PHP-DB] Md5() / password() in MySQL From: Mark Roedel (roedelm <email protected>)
Date: 11/13/00

> -----Original Message-----
> From: kenji chan [mailto:kenjikenji <email protected>]
> Sent: Monday, November 13, 2000 2:06 PM
> To: php-db <email protected>
> Subject: [PHP-DB] Md5() / password() in MySQL
>
>
> Md5() / password() in MySQL:
>
> Md5() can be encode something, but how to decode it?
> Password() is a buld in function in mysql , but how to
> decode something from password() ??

In both cases, the answer is "You can't."

Both md5() and MySQL's password() are one-way functions.

To determine whether a password entered later matches the one that's stored,
you'll need to encrypt the new password and see whether the encrypted
strings match. 

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