On 12/20/2011 5:16 PM, Ed Leafe wrote:

> You should never store passwords. Instead, you should store a hash of the password. When the user logs in, you hash the supplied password and compare it to the stored hash. If they match, the password was valid.

That's what I'm attempting to do....but with a checksum. So I should

use the HASH() function instead and store the 64 byte character string

instead of the 10 digit # generated from the checksum?

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