Encryption
Not wantin to appear like a cocky bastard, but from my understanding that isn't true.
Even if there isn't a built in way of viewing them, I am pretty certain they are not encryted in the DB, because this is quite difficult to implement. It is different to the situation with passwords, where they are encoded, because they never have to be read, only compared with a given input.
They may be encoded in the DB, but this is easy to undo with a touch of PHP. Of course, you may have insatlled a mod tat does enable encrytion (there is at least one availible)
Anyway, that's just my understanding of how it works,
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Rukas said:
Then whoever said it lied or was mistaken.
Firstly, Dante is not an Admin at all. Secondly, only I would have access to that type of information were it available, and thirdly, it is not. All passwords and private messages are encrypted, there is no way to find them, they are encrypted even if you go through the mysql database.
So whoever said that wanted to appear more powerful than they really are or was simply mistaken.
Firstly, Dante is not an Admin at all. Secondly, only I would have access to that type of information were it available, and thirdly, it is not. All passwords and private messages are encrypted, there is no way to find them, they are encrypted even if you go through the mysql database.
So whoever said that wanted to appear more powerful than they really are or was simply mistaken.
Even if there isn't a built in way of viewing them, I am pretty certain they are not encryted in the DB, because this is quite difficult to implement. It is different to the situation with passwords, where they are encoded, because they never have to be read, only compared with a given input.
They may be encoded in the DB, but this is easy to undo with a touch of PHP. Of course, you may have insatlled a mod tat does enable encrytion (there is at least one availible)
Anyway, that's just my understanding of how it works,
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