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Njabulo Magwaza
Njabulo Magwaza

Reputation: 1

Asp net password recovery

I'm using asp.net membership for users accounts, user password is encrypted and stored on to the sql database as a user registers , the problem I'm having it when the user forgets the password I can't get it right when trying to retrieve it from the database, I have no idea how I can reverse the encryption.I'd appreciate the help.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 76

Answers (1)

1sloc
1sloc

Reputation: 1180

You can't. By default the passwords are saved as a salted SHA1 hash, you can't "decrypt" such a hash.

It would be bad practice to save passwords in a fashion that allows you to view them, no matter which algorithm you would be using for that. Just create some logic to enable a user to reset his or her password, instead of trying to retrieve the original password.

Upvotes: 1

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