Re: Password encryption

Ron <ronljohnsonjr@xxxxxxxxx> · Sun, 15 Apr 2018 20:16:04 -0500



    On 04/15/2018 07:22 PM, Azimuddin Mohammed wrote:

    
      Hello,
        Is there a way I can encrypt the default
          password column of db user password. I know by default the
          password is encrypted as md5, can we encrypt that of shadow
          column for password?
      
    
    MD5 is a one-way hash, not an encryption scheme.  Thus, the
    password cannot be reverse-computed from the MD5 hash value.  So,
    you're (kinda) safe, although an attacker could determine the
    password through brute-force calculation of hashes.

    
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