Re: Crypt Function-- Encryption and Decryption

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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 whether it is really impossible to decrypt the passwords , if possible , how it caqn be done. like salts and all

Can somebody *please* throw more light on Crypt() and Encryption and Decryption in this thread.

Thanks,

Nikhil


As far as I know the standard crypto-methots used in
crypt() is one-way-hashing. The data used when encrypting
is lost, the encrypted data is generated using this data. There
is no other methods to get these data back other than
brute-forcing (guess, encrypt with the same algorithm and compare)
but it may take months/years depending on the size of the orginal
data.

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