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[quote author="garymardell" date="1271725238"]You don't need to decrypt the sha1, all you need to do is encrypt the password given and check if it matches the stored password.[/quote]
Thanks for your reply garymardell. That sound really easy.
I'm new to this and there is something I am not understanding here. I did not realize that this hash that is produced by the sha1 and stored in the database could be accurately compared with an encrypted password from the login page ... I thought they would be different inspite of the password being the same.