>They could simply be using a reversible encryption algorithm. I'm sorry, but this difference is completely trivial. Putting a password in some reversible enc

>They could simply be using a reversible encryption algorithm. I'm sorry, but this difference is completely trivial. Putting a password in some reversible encryption is just security by obscurity. In the worst case the people who managed to break into your site and steal all the passwords can just steal your magical decryption routine as well.