Re: Encryption of passwords

From: Andrew Protasov <protasov_at_percombank.kiev.ua>
Date: Thu, 11 Jun 1998 10:26:46 +0300
Message-ID: <6lo47u$9g4@post.percombank.kiev.ua>

Hi,

It is easy - encode passwords in your front end application and then store them in the database. When you check password then encode it once again and compare encoded form with stored in the database. There are a lot algorithms for encoding. We use MD5.

Andrew Protasov

mike_andrew_at_usiva.com wrote in message <6lmcsn$s0r$1_at_nnrp1.dejanews.com>...
>I have a table storing names, userids and passwords. I need a way to
encrypt
>the passwords without having to dedicate the names as database users and
>letting Oracle handle the password encryption. The front-end application
>reads this table, but if one were to connect to SQL*Plus they could view
the
>passwords.
>
>Does anyone have any ideas?
>
>Thanks
>
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Received on Thu Jun 11 1998 - 02:26:46 CDT