Re: [school-discuss] Gradebook Specification

[Rasjid Wilcox <rasjidw@bigpond.com>]

On Wed, 3 Apr 2002 3:47 pm, chip wrote:
> > 1) Student - student information including:
> > a) Lastname
> > b) Firstname
> > c) Student Number (local or state/provincial)
> > plus any other useful demographic stuff.
>
> Maybe a password colloum?(md5 of cource!)
> So that students could view their grades?
>

Were you suggesting a plain md5 hash, or some kind of salted version?  
Salting the password is a good idea as it increases the time required to 
crack a stolen password list, and stops duplicate passwords being immediately 
recognisable.

Rasjid.