Re: Password management

From:

"Tom Serface" <tom@camaswood.com>

Newsgroups:

microsoft.public.vc.mfc

Date:

Thu, 28 May 2009 14:20:11 -0700

Message-ID:

<51D4C9E4-818D-491C-91A6-B1EA8FCCA146@microsoft.com>

How can you unhash the hashed password without knowing the password to use
to do it? I'm confused about that one and that's where I thought it might
be a security issue if that were even possible.

Tom

"Joseph M. Newcomer" <newcomer@flounder.com> wrote in message
news:0v1r159c4emcsuvnb6taebhb81r8v40seg@4ax.com...

Because it is not the *client* that is doing the encryption! It is
WINDOWS that is doing
the encryption! If the client were doing the encryption, there would be
no need to ask
the question because the answer would be obvious!
joe
On Wed, 27 May 2009 07:19:32 -0700, "David Ching"
<dc@remove-this.dcsoft.com> wrote:

"Joseph M. Newcomer" <newcomer@flounder.com> wrote in message
news:l7no155r06f32mmjj239mlrv7aov1sfm4c@4ax.com...

There is a feature called "reversible password encryption" and is
required
for features
like CHAP protocols.

Why don't you ask your client what scheme they are using for passwords
currently, find out the API's, then use the symmetric decryption API's?
Or
have they not chosen a scheme yet, and you need to recommend one?

-- David

Joseph M. Newcomer [MVP]
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