Problem in decryption

[kavithadevan]

Hi,

! created table with two fields one is username and another one is password.Using md5 i enerypted myusername field and i stored in database but now again i want to see username field in welcome page with name so in this how to decrypt username from database.

thanks

[kovik]

Just don't hash it in the first place. Hashing is for passwords, not usernames. The only reason that we use hashing is so that if I were to gain access to your database, I couldn't tell what the passwords were. Usernames don't need to be hashed because everyone can see them anyway.