Password Encryption

kevincon · Post by **kevincon** » Tue May 12, 2009 7:12 pm

Being specific, How can i convert the phpbb password encryption to md5?

Post by **stevemaury** » Tue May 12, 2009 7:13 pm

It is MD5, but salted. You can put an MD5 password into the phpbb database and it will work. It will get salted, though. What are you trying to do?

kevincon · Post by **kevincon** » Tue May 12, 2009 8:50 pm

Well i put an md5 password into the database and it didn't work.

And i'm using a game engine that only supports md5 (source engine).
and when my users register via game it encrypts it as md5.

Post by **stevemaury** » Tue May 12, 2009 8:51 pm

If you put an MD5 in the database and use it to login to phpbb, it works. If you try to pass it to some other application that is expecting and MD5, it won't work, because it gets salted.

So, what are you trying to do?

kevincon · Post by **kevincon** » Tue May 12, 2009 8:55 pm

I'm doing the web side of a Garry's Mod gamemode.

The gamemode is http://pirateshipwars.com/

It runs off the half life 2 engine.

And basically users pay on the website, and i want to integrate my wip site into phpbb.

EXreaction · Post by **EXreaction** » Wed May 13, 2009 2:37 am

The password doesn't just get salted. It does 2048 iterations of md5($hash . $password) after md5($salt . $password).

If you can be a bit more specific on what it needs to do we can possibly figure out a way to get it working. Do you need it setup so the game engine can check your database for the users or just to have it register users on your board after they register via the game?

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