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Password recovery through mobile?
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2013-10-07, 10:49 PM
(2013-10-05, 06:25 PM)Doxer Wrote: Given it good thought. What if MyBB users could recover their accounts through mobile as an addition to recovery through email? These phone numbers could also be hidden from administrators in the ACP and possibly encrypted in the DB just like passwords are.

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It wouldn't work just like passwords. Passwords are one-way hashed and compared upon login. Phone numbers would need to be encrypted with something like key authentication, which as Arbaz said, would require a significant amount of code to implement.
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Password recovery through mobile? - by Doxer - 2013-10-05, 06:25 PM
RE: Password recovery through mobile? - by Arbaz - 2013-10-07, 03:06 AM
RE: Password recovery through mobile? - by Krytic - 2013-10-08, 12:49 AM
RE: Password recovery through mobile? - by Arbaz - 2013-10-08, 03:51 AM
RE: Password recovery through mobile? - by Josh H. - 2013-10-07, 10:49 PM
RE: Password recovery through mobile? - by Doxer - 2013-10-12, 12:41 AM

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