Decrypt password

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Exelsia
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Decrypt password

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How can I decrypt a password, which was encrypted using the simple "password"-method of PHP/MySQL ?
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You can't, that method is a one way hash (like the md5() function in PHP) so you can compare two encryted values to see if they are the same but cannot just decrypt the data.

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