in reply to Re^4: encrypt passwords
in thread encrypt passwords

What makes you think he would need to decrypt it to get the original plain text password?

Re^2: encrypt passwords shows database name, host name, username, password. That looks like logins for remote systems that need the plain text password.

Alexander

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