How people stores the password in database?

[jeephp]

Hi,
I need some help with storing password in mysql database or something similar.

i used to store the password in database using md5() function but there is no way to retrieve the

password back.

Now i want to know that -
is it standard and secure way to store password?
is there any other technique to store password so i can retrive it back?

Any advice on this would be highly appreciated.

Thanks
Paresh

[Xnuiem]

You can use the mcrypt functions in PHP. I use those with blowfish encryption, but be careful with MySQL 4.1.X since the new charset seems to really screw with blowfish. We will be changing encryption methods soon.

You can also, i think, use the MySQL encrypt() functions.

[markblue777]

or you can write your own algorith i have my own one from vb wich will take probably no longer then 10 minutes to convert to php let me no if you want it
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