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SMF Support => SMF 1.1.x Support => Topic started by: Syard on January 17, 2019, 05:37:11 AM

Title: Hash Salt and Username
Post by: Syard on January 17, 2019, 05:37:11 AM
Hey hey !

So I'm having a problem with paswords, I'd like to understand better what's going on with the hashing algorithm, from my research, it uses the username as a salt : is that the case for v1.1 ?
Why is there a "Salt" in my smf_members table if the salt used is the username ?

Thanks for your insight !
Syard
Title: Re: Hash Salt and Username
Post by: Arantor on January 17, 2019, 06:23:49 AM
The salt is the username, that extra column is related to password reset and also used to identify if the user has come from SMF or a different platform via conversion (as SMF tried to let the user use their old password)
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