>>Well then, by all means do encrypt the data - I was answering a question of Dmitry's - not an obscure Denis popping up
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>The thing is - I think I now understood. I was actually updating my reply. You store hash value in a database. You will never be able to get the original value of the password back. When the user types a password, you take the hash and then compare it with the stored hash in the table.


See message#1477631 - first and 3rd sentence of the answer