Re: Displaying Password

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Hi Karl,

> 
> Yes you are correct. I do not store a plan text password.

Great stuff - so many systems I've seen use plain-text passwords it's little wonder there's so much data theft.


> If you cant read the encrypted text, you cant decrypt it right?

Wrong.  There are two-way encryption methods requiring the use of a common key, and an initialization vector for some protocols - see the mcrypt library which PHP can use (I had a play around with it quite recently.)

http://uk2.php.net/manual/en/function.mcrypt-decrypt.php

Regards,
Andy
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