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Originally posted by Ruth
thewitt, i will be integrating some scripts with vB, that use the user.password, and the scripts don't work with MD5, how about this reason?
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Opinion here, based on serious experience, not hyperbole. These are also insecure and need to be modified to use the encrypted password.
Storing plain text passwords is perhaps the single most insecure thing that anyone can do in an application. CS101 stuff here.
Use this opportunity to bring your applications up to a higher level of security standard...
-t