[Tutor] How to save password ?

Lloyd Kvam pythonTutor at venix.com
Thu Oct 14 15:49:51 CEST 2004


On Thu, 2004-10-14 at 09:36, Mark Kels wrote:
> but how do I change back the hash to the password (  to confirm it ) ?

You don't.  You hash the password you receive and see if it matches the
hash you saved.

In general, you do not want your application to "know" the user
passwords.

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