Decrypt password using bcrypt php

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I search how to decrypt a password stored in bcrypt using php, but I don't find a good explaination. Could you please send some useful links ? Thx in advance and sorry for my english

bcrypt is a hashing function so you can't "decrypt" the passwords. You can only compare them to the stored hashes, if you have any. Check out the bcrypt article on wikipedia. — ayushgp, Aug 15 '16 at 07:23

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You cannot decrypt a password stored with bcrypt. That's the whole point of using a cryptographic hash function.

All you can do is check if a given password matches (see code sample). This method could be applied repeatedly with many candidates, that is called "brute force attack", and it is not feasible for strong passwords.

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answered Aug 15 '16 at 06:50

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*"that is called "brute force attack", and it is not feasible for strong passwords."* until we have quantum computers. – Memor-X Aug 15 '16 at 06:54

Decrypt password using bcrypt php

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