1 Reply by Samuel LB

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The correct term is cracker.

I knew someone would say that. Anyway, hackers do crack peoples passwords, but they don't destroy anything.

When you put a string of data through MD5, you cannot reverse it.

There's a program called MD5-Crack which CAN reverse MD5's. Anyway, it takes a little time...

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2 Reply by Samuel LB

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Even worse, someone could include some <script>-tags with a javascript which sends the cookie to a cracker/hacker/whatever... Then they can use MD5-Crack to decyrpt it. Or does PunBB use sessions?

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3 Reply by Samuel LB

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I think it's quite secure.
It protects against "offsite posting", and i think it's more secure than PHPBB. PHPBB has many bugs, search for PHPBB BUGS at google, and you'll understand what i mean:

http://www.google.com/search?q=bug+phpb … p;oe=utf-8

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