| Re: problem encrypting data (AES_ENCRYPT/AES_DECRYPT) [message #181763 is a reply to message #181762] |
Thu, 30 May 2013 11:53   |
ViVi
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On 30 Mag, 12:53, Doug Miller <doug_at_milmac_dot_...@example.com>
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> Aside from all that, why are you decrypting it in the first place? You may not need to.
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> Specifically, if the objective is to determine whether a password entered by a user matches
> the [encrypted] password stored in your database, the proper way to do this is not to
> DEcrypt the stored password and compare it to the entered password, but to ENcrypt the
> *entered* password and compare the encrypted versions.
I'm not encrypting passwords ...
I'm encrypting really sensible data blah blah blah ;-)
Thankyou anyway for your attention !
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