I'm a bit puzzled - how do passwords help you if your system doesn't store them anywhere?

I mean when the user enters the password somewhere you need to verify if his password is correct, so you must have the password stored somewhere.

If you're worried that your database admin might steal the passwords you could try to encrypt the temporary passwords like this:

For each generated password you also create a unique key. Then you encrypt the password with key and store it in the DB, and you send the key to the client (print"<img src='https://www.mysite.com/secure/cgi-bin/secimage.cgi?key=$key'>";).

That way the secret is split into two halves, one is only known in the database and one that is only send the browser (and not stored), so no evil database admin can recover the passwords.

In reply to Re^3: Passing variable from one cgi to another by moritz
in thread Passing variable from one cgi to another by 3SRT

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