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03-12-2014, 08:50 AM

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Re: Great password

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Originally Posted by CigarNut

How is it that you have employee passwords -- which should be one-way encrypted -- in clear text?

You 'crack' them by encoding them (MD5 or SHA-1 these days) and comparing the resulting ciphertext with the stored one. This is the same way that the logon process verifies that you entered the correct password.

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