Re: [PHP] (Kinda sorta) PHP related: recovering lost passwords

2011-08-16 Thread James Colannino
On 08/16/11 02:08, Richard Quadling wrote: > Take a look at https://code.google.com/p/loginsystem-rd/ > > Whilst it is just a login system, the techniques here could be adapted > and probably learned from (if you are new to security). Ah, that looks interesting. Thanks for the link! James --

Re: [PHP] (Kinda sorta) PHP related: recovering lost passwords

2011-08-16 Thread James Colannino
On 08/16/11 01:30, Lester Caine wrote: > All the good sites simply don't have that capability ... > Much safer rather than 'recovering' a password is to identify the user, > and send them a temporary password which they have to change when they > log in. This way nobody is allowed access existing

Re: [PHP] (Kinda sorta) PHP related: recovering lost passwords

2011-08-16 Thread Bastien
On 2011-08-16, at 5:08 AM, Richard Quadling wrote: > On 16 August 2011 09:14, James Colannino wrote: >> Hi everyone, >> >> I don't post all that often, so I hope my (mildly) off-topic question >> won't be too unwelcome... Keep in mind that I'm still pretty new when >> it comes to security, s

Re: [PHP] (Kinda sorta) PHP related: recovering lost passwords

2011-08-16 Thread Richard Quadling
On 16 August 2011 09:14, James Colannino wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I don't post all that often, so I hope my (mildly) off-topic question > won't be too unwelcome...  Keep in mind that I'm still pretty new when > it comes to security, so what I propose may or may not sound incredibly > dumb (you ha

Re: [PHP] (Kinda sorta) PHP related: recovering lost passwords

2011-08-16 Thread Lester Caine
James Colannino wrote: If it matches the unencrypted version stored in the database, you know you have the correct answer, and use it to decrypt the user's password and send it to the email the user has setup for their account. All the good sites simply don't have that capability ... Much safer

[PHP] (Kinda sorta) PHP related: recovering lost passwords

2011-08-16 Thread James Colannino
Hi everyone, I don't post all that often, so I hope my (mildly) off-topic question won't be too unwelcome... Keep in mind that I'm still pretty new when it comes to security, so what I propose may or may not sound incredibly dumb (you have been warned! :-P) I'm working on a project in PHP, a toy