Re: Hashed password displaying

thats not possible

you simply let the user chose to submit a "new" password
no need to display the old one (besides the fact that this is not
possible and should not be) - its much safer anyway!

On 22 Jan., 00:13, Andras Kende <and...@kende.com> wrote:
> I don't think a hashed password is reversible.
> if you really need the to show cleartext password you could add another field
> into the db table like password_cleartext and keep it there ....
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> Andras Kendehttp://www.kende.com
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> On Jan 21, 2011, at 4:59 PM, eldorado2768 wrote:
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> > If I setup a user and create a password, the password is hashed using
> > cakephp's default SHA1 hash algorithm and saved in the user table
> > without any problem. However, when I want to view or edit the record,
> > the entire 36 char password is being displayed in the password field.
> > Is there any way to reverse hash it back to the decrypted version so
> > the user sees the original password before it was hashed?
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