On Tuesday 31 July 2007 17:59:32 nossatv_sd wrote:
> I have seen people using sha package to encrypt strings (e,g
> passwords). An example is shapassword =
> sha.new(kw.get('password')).hexdigest(). Now I am not sure how to
> decrypt the password encrypted this way but we could obviously
> validate the password without decrypting. May be you guys already know
> about it but just wanted to throw in my two cents.SHA is a hash algorithm. You can't decrypt a hash. What happens is that you encrypt something using the same salt and compare the result with the stored hash: if they're the same you have a successful match. -- Jorge Godoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TurboGears" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
