Hi, Jannetta S Steyn wrote: >> It doesn't matter what gets stored as long as the >> decrypted value matches the password. > > This part of what you said puzzles me. Why would you want to decrypt the > password and > isn't the point of md5 and DES that you don't decrypt the password. Usually > the > passwords are compared in their encrypted form. That's the whole idea of a > message > digest isn't it to get a unique signature for a message and to make it near > impossible > to retrieve the message from the signature again.
You're talking about the differences between hashing and encryption / decryption. MD5 is a hashing algorithm, DES is an encryption / decryption algorithm. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptographic_hash_function http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encryption HTH, Neil. -- Neil Hillard [EMAIL PROTECTED] AgustaWestland http://www.whl.co.uk/ Disclaimer: This message does not necessarily reflect the views of Westland Helicopters Ltd. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] " from the digest: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
