How do I (un)md5 a password that I entered into a db?

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December 19th, 2003, 04:49 PM

Mojoman

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How do I (un)md5 a password that I entered into a db?

I used md5 to encrypt a password before it was entered into a database.

What I want to do now is be able to pull it back from the db in it's original un-encrypted form.

TIA

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December 19th, 2003, 05:27 PM

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You can't decode a MD5 hash as it isn't decodable.
Why would you need to do that though ?

December 19th, 2003, 06:42 PM

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Yeah, you are right!

I figured it out - I needed to use base64_encode and base64_decode!

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