Recovering Passwords

[James Birkett]

Awesome post there Adrian (that wasn't sarcasm either!)

To explain why:
When you create your password, it is hashed using a MD5 hash along with a salt (I won't go into details about what they are). A hashing process cannot be reversed, meaning that you cannot reverse the hash to get the original password. Each time you login it will automatically hash your password and match the hash with the hash in the database. If it is matching, that's when you login.


Hope that explained why.