Version 7 Access Database Migration Tool
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Topic: Version 7 Access Database Migration Tool
Posted By: czechmate
Subject: Version 7 Access Database Migration Tool
Date Posted: 01 March 2003 at 9:10am
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I used the migration tool and everything went well during the process. After the migration I went into my "new" database to see if everything was transfered. What I found was my members passwords had some how changed to other random letters? Was this suppose to happen? Czech |
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Posted By: dolby71
Date Posted: 01 March 2003 at 9:16am
| That's because in the new DB they are encoded in 128-Bit... |
Posted By: czechmate
Date Posted: 01 March 2003 at 9:26am
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Does that mean my members will still be able to log on using their original passwords? Sorry for sounding dumb, I'm still fairly new to this. Thanks Czech |
Posted By: joshb
Date Posted: 01 March 2003 at 9:32am
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I thought it was 160 bit, hee hee, anyways yes your members passwords are still the same, just encrypted. ------------- I'm a wannabe programmer that knows how to do nothing but create invalid procedure arguments. http://www.soopportal.com"> 
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Posted By: czechmate
Date Posted: 01 March 2003 at 9:34am
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Thanks for the fast, great reply! czech |
Posted By: dolby71
Date Posted: 01 March 2003 at 9:52am
| Yes, it's 160Bit... Oops... LOL... |
Posted By: Nigelo
Date Posted: 01 March 2003 at 2:07pm
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Yes, the whole point about encrypting passwords is that it cannot be read by examining the DB, by anyone let alone unauthorised eyes in the event of theft / hacking. One way encryption, used by Bruce, also means that you cannot decrypt this incomprehensible text back to the original password. Like most crypto I guess it could eventually be broken but this is about as strong as I could possibly have wished for. Anyone who has run the Migrator can see just how much processing power the PW encryption process actually takes compared to the other migration functions (Threads Topics etc) Hope this helps |