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« on: Sep 12, 2005, 02:45:52 am »

As far as I know the best way to keep a password record is encrypted using md5 or whatever else your database system has.

But what about when the password is stored in cookies?
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« Reply #1 on: Sep 12, 2005, 05:27:59 pm »

What language do you use?

If you are using php, you can use md5 there too.

http://php.net/md5
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« Reply #2 on: Sep 12, 2005, 05:30:46 pm »

What language do you use?

If you are using php, you can use md5 there too.

http://php.net/md5

I knew that. The problem is that if I use the md5() function to encode a password that will be held in a cookie, then it will be easy to be decoded by a programmer
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« Reply #3 on: Sep 12, 2005, 08:44:28 pm »

Would it be more secure if u wrap the pass with md5 and then sha1 or something?
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« Reply #4 on: Nov 22, 2005, 04:14:10 am »

What you could try is first encode it using your own algorithm, then apply the MD5.
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« Reply #5 on: Nov 22, 2005, 08:11:26 am »

What you could try is first encode it using your own algorithm, then apply the MD5.


Yeah that would be more secure

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