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icon5.gif  decrypt password field [message #151801] Mon, 19 December 2005 05:25 Go to next message
abdzaben
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Registered: December 2005
Location: jordan
Junior Member

Hi,
Can anyone please let me know how to decrypt a password field in a users table in sql 2000 SP4.
Thanks in advance.
Re: decrypt password field [message #151809 is a reply to message #151801] Mon, 19 December 2005 05:48 Go to previous message
Frank Naude
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Registered: April 1998
Senior Member
Applications normally store password hashes in the database and not encrypted passwords. So, trying to decrypt them is probably not going to get you anywhere.

Best regards.

Frank
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