[Opensource] How to crypto the passwords?

[Itamar Almeida de Carvalho]

Em Ter, 2002-08-06 às 02:20, Michael Rimov escreveu:
> At 10:37 PM 8/5/2002 -0300, you wrote:
> >I saw my plain text password at the USERS table... is there a way to use
> >encrypted passwords?
> 
> The first time you log in, Expresso should automatically hash the passwords 
> using SHA-1.  Let me know if after setting your password on the user's 
> table, if when you re-log in if it doesn't convert for you.

I tested and it worked, but why not to hash the passwords before saving
them to the database? I really don`t understand...

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