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02-17-2008, 10:55 AM	#1 (permalink)
Aaron The Frequenter Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: In my basement Posts: 386 Thanks: 47	Wtf? Password Recovery? MD5? Unreversable? !! As the title states, I need to ask; how do you make a password recovery when the database MD5's the value? There is no way to reverse MD5, and storing the password as plain-text is not safe... so how do you do it?

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