Re: how decrypt password in view?

There are other better solutions :)  But my hope is to discourage another from doing far worse.

MM

On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 6:35 AM, AD7six <andydawson76@gmail.com> wrote:

On Feb 4, 12:21 pm, Matt Murphy <mattyh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> It is never necessary to decrypt a password -- both from a technical
> standpoint and from a security standpoint.  If you need to check an entered
> password vs the stored has, you hash the entered password and compare with
> the stored hash.  If your user forgets theirs, simply generate a new one,
> email it to them

FWIW that's a hideous practice. don't mail passwords.

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