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adding a * in front of the encrypted pw should be enough
Authored by: a1291762 on Mar 11, '02 04:41:42PM

If you modify the encrypted password, chances are it'll be very hard (if not impossible) to guess what the unencrypted version will be. So by adding a char to the beginning (especially a char that isn't valid in an encrypted password) you're changing the unencrypted password to something that the user won't be able to guess.

When you remove that character, the password will be the same as it originally was. There's no "timestamp" or other such information in the password, it's just an encrypted phrase.



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