On 12/20/2011 5:17 PM, John Weller wrote:

> I have a routine which pads the password to a fixed length of, say, 20

> characters with a standard string of punctuation. I then take the ASCII

> value of the first character and use it as a seed for a RAND() function. I

> take the resulting fraction and multiply it by the ASCII value of the second

> character then take the integer value and use it as the seed for another

> RAND() repeating until the end of the string is reached. The final fraction

> is then multiplied by 10,000,000 and the integer stored. When a user enters

> their password I repeat the process and compare the result with the stored

> value. I defy anyone to recover the password from the stored value :-).

>

> If you want the code let me know.

Good Lord, man....impressive!

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