[Mediawiki-l] Fwd: encryption of paasword

[sharmishtha gupta]

I think i frame my question little bit confusing, let me modifie a bit
I need to know that In what form is the password stored in MediaWiki,
OR, What encryption do we need to use to store a password manually in MW
user table?".

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From: sharmishtha gupta <sharmishtha.gupta at gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 11:30:51 +0530
Subject: encryption of paasword
To: mediawiki-l at lists.wikimedia.org

hi all,
I want to know that how we can encrypt the paasword into mediawiki.
we are providing paasword for each user. so if we use any encryption
technique like md5 and use salt then how to retrieve from the database
by reversing these.As i heard about hashing technique also.
 which will solve the security issue. please suggest if any other
technique will solve better.

Thank you in advance.