On Saturday, June 1, 2002, at 04:08 , Felix Geerinckx wrote:
[..]
> perldoc -f crypt
>
> Essentially, when you want to check a submitted password, you encrypt it
> and compare the result with the encrypted version of the real password,
> which you have stored somewhere.
to illustrate Felix's point scope out:
http://www.wetware.com/drieux/pbl/Sys/Admin/passwdGame.txt
and no - you do NOT want to know how to decrypt passwds - that
way leads to 'weapons grade technologies' - if you need to ask,
find an 'old geek perler' with the T-shirt that warns you that
perl is a weapon's grade technology....
ciao
drieux
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