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Re: How to validate passwords without storing them anywhere.

Very clever!

I once worked for an organization that ran a home grown CICS (IBM mainframe) replacement.

The signon password was encrpyted with itself as a seed and the encrypted value was saved.

We were coding in 360 Assembly and I never looked at the code, nor do I know how secure the approach was, but no passwords were ever saved. Code was developed circa 1970.

Sam

On 3/17/2021 1:29 PM, Rob Berendt wrote:
-- How to verify passwords without ever storing passwords.
-- Thanks to Darren Strong of Dekko.

-- The basic concept is that you do not store the password.
-- Instead you store a common string encrypted by the password.

-- As a war on 5250 tools the "short names" are obscured.


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