Kbase P136935: Is it possible to determine the password of a user?
| Autor |
Progress Software Corporation - Progress |
| Acesso |
Público |
| Publicação |
11/5/2008 |
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Status: Unverified
GOAL:
Is it possible to determine the password of a user?
FACT(s) (Environment):
All Supported Operating Systems
Progress 9.x
OpenEdge 10.x
FIX:
It is not possible to determine the password of a user. ENCODE performs a one-way encoding operation that is irreversible. For example:
If cStringA = cStringB THEN ENCODE(cStringA) is always equal to ENCODE(cStringB). however,
IF ENCODE(cStringA) = ENCODE(cStringB) THEN cStringA may or may NOT be equal to cStringB.