How is MD5 used to *decode* anything? It is a one-way hash algorithm. I
know this is kind of off-topic, but I don't understand this part of the
solution.

At 12:19 PM 5/30/2001 -0400, you wrote:

>The stored procedure takes the username, password and role as parameters and
>first decodes them using the md5hash routines. (plus bin_xor) or simple
>pattern matching.
>(This is also a very detailed subject, for another email)