Working with an encrypted password in a class.

[sde]

I have a User class. For simplicity let's say this class has 2 members: username, password.

The encrypted password is stored in the database.

Would you store the plain text password as the value of the password string? or would you store the encrypted value as it is in the database?

password = "mypass"
vs.
password = "23lkfsdf9823lksdfi23kjsdf"

( that is supposed to look encrypted )

[joe_bruin]

why would you ever want to store the plain-text password?

[Belisarius]

I trend towards using the encrypted version, as it prevents some sloppt coder sometime in the future from doing a System.out.println(password), thereby revealing passwords for the whole world.

[sde]

ok thanks again