MD5 instead of actual encryption

[Death on Wheels]

If I wrote a program that required user logins, and instead of using an actual encryption algorithm I just had the user input the password, compute the MD5 sum of that, and compare it against the MD5 sum of the actual password, how secure would that be?

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Kurt Weber
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[Ig0r]

A proven-reasonably-secure one-way cryptographic hash (such as md5) is the best way to confirm a password because the password itself is never stored.

[klamath]

Is this a networked, client/server app? Is the MD5 digest done on the client? We need more info.

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- Klamath
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