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Can you extract passwords from a phpBB bulletin board?

If I have a phpBB running on a MySql database on my website, is it possible for me to see people's plaintext passwords? If so, is it really difficult? For example, are the passwords hashed, or are they stored as plaintext?



I'm asking because I want to know if it is safe to use my email password on bulletin boards.

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1. phpBB passwords are encrypted using md5 and stored in the database. This encryption is irreversible so you will never be able to convert this to plaintext. The only thing you can do is change the password.