Md5

Rails
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I am converting 20,000+ users from mybb to a new rails app.
It appears that ruby m5 crypts different than php md5.

Is this possible? I thought the algorithm should be the same for any
platform.

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Jon Griffin wrote:

I am converting 20,000+ users from mybb to a new rails app.
It appears that ruby m5 crypts different than php md5.

Is this possible? I thought the algorithm should be the same for any
platform.

I expect it should be the same. Are you sure that mybb only does an
MD5. I was looking at YABB a long time back, and I seem to recollect
that it carries out 2 operations on the password. IIRC, it was Base64
and MD5 or something like that.

Hope this helps.

Cheers,
Mohit.
11/13/2007 | 2:44 PM.

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Yes that was it, they actually encrypt the password and salt 2x with
md5. I don’t read php so it took me a while to figure out.
Thanks