Secure password storing • www.martinstoeckli.ch • 6/13

Two-Way-Hash?

Now we have found a solution to our problem, instead of storing the password, we calculate its hash-value and store it in the database. If the user wants to login, we calculate the hash-value of the user input, and compare it with the value in the database.

So we store for example this value...

82210e61e8f415525262575b20fae48d

Because it is a one way hash, we cannot recover the original password, do we?