Securing passwords stored inside of a database field using Python

[Oleg Broytmann]

On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, chris lamb wrote:
> A one way encryption algorithm? If so what would be recommended by anyone<

   MD5 or SHA. Python has modules for both. Some databases can create
hashes for passwords (MySQL can do it with both unix "broken DES" hash and
MD5).

Oleg.
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