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Old 03-12-2014, 08:50 AM   #1
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Default Re: Great password

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Originally Posted by CigarNut View Post
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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