>Can anyone direct me to some information regarding encrypting passwords for an application or supply some ideas on this? I have a login screen, written in C#, that shows has the user enter a User ID and a Password. The text box for password is set to just show ' * ' but I want to also encrypt the user record in the SQL 2005 database so that people just can't "pop in there" and see the passwords.
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>Alan Wyne

What about ASP.NET's SqlMembership Provider? I believe this has a setting as to encrypt the stored passwords or not.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms998347.aspx?ppud=4

What do folks think about the ASP.NET's SqlMembership Provider?

Big whoops! I'm assuming you're doing an ASP.NET project.