From: Logan Capaldo <logancapaldo@...>
Date: 2007-04-27T21:02:22+09:00
Subject: Re: Decode password

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On 4/27/07, Mitesh Jain <mitijain123@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hi All,
> i had encoded the password using,
>
> Digest::SHA1.hexdigest("change-me--#{pass}--")
>
> i got the password in the encoded form and i want to decode this string.
>
> How can i do this?
>
> --
> Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
>
> _why_ do you want to decode it? If it's to make sure a password entered by
a user is correct, hash their entered password in the same way, and compare
the hashes together. If its because you, or a user forgot their password,
generate a new (usually random) known password, and use the hash of that,
and then send the new password to the user.

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