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?".
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: sharmishtha gupta sharmishtha.gupta@gmail.com Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 11:30:51 +0530 Subject: encryption of paasword To: mediawiki-l@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.