encrypted password comparison

[flix52]

I have a form that is doing a password validation against an encrypted/salted password in a db. The field in the db is as such:

(md5 encrypted password+salt):(salt)

I need to parse the salt out of the db field. Any help would be appreciated.

[edited by: eelixduppy at 2:19 pm (utc) on July 31, 2008]
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[eelixduppy]

Welcome to WebmasterWorld.

You won't be able to grab the salt.

[flix52]

why not? what you're saying is that I can't parse a string. that doesn't seem correct to me.

[flix52]

nevermind, I'll just use explode and the : as the delimiter

[eelixduppy]

Oh, I'm sorry. I thought the salt was md5 encrypted with the password. I didn't understand that it was just the string. Exploding should do fine.

[jatar_k]

just a thought

there's no point of a salt if it's stored in there with the encrypted salted pass