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Ganesh I asked:


When I go to my phpmyadmin(mysql manager) I see a table called wp_users in which passwords of all users are stored but they are encrypted(Example: 3khj4k2lk32lkdddlkfk4kl43ljkfkdl but thats npt the real password). So dus anyone know how to decrypt it?

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krishbhavara on 18 July, 2008 at 2:03 pm #

A hash (hash code/digest/message digest) is an encrypted form of a data. A hash of the password is generated and stored in your database.

In PHP hashes are generated using the PASSWORD() [41 byte] , md5() [128-bit (32 hexadecimal characters)] and sha1 [160-bit (40 hexadecimal characters)] functions.

You need to know which function was used for hashing the password before it was stored (you can identify this from the word press source code for creating a user account)

Then you need to know mysql or php wherein you write code to decrypt this hashed password to its original characters.


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