Encryption Info

[SupaJ]

No idea but my coder told me to say it

Anybody else know?

[SupaJ]

Please PLEASE help!

[who is chris c]

if your running cf and cant run php then how are you running vb on the server. you may have to recode the way vb uses the password to conform with cf standards (i dont know cf at all)

[Andreas]

Originally Posted by SupaJ

Please PLEASE help!

I've already posted everything that is necessary - now it is your turn.

[filburt1]

Originally Posted by SupaJ

But CF encrypts stuff in a 32bit format, PHP does it differently.

vBulletin does not encrypt anything. The only information it doesn't preserve as plain text is the password, and that is hashed, not encrypted, using the MD5 algorithm: http://www.php.net/md5 . Virtually any language will have MD5 hashing functionality.

Encryption is two-way: text can be encrypted and then converted back to the original text. Hashing is one-way: the hashed text cannot be converted back to the original text because information is lost in the process. This has the disadvantage that two strings can create the same hash, but the chance of that happening is ridiculously low, something like one out of 16^16.

[Andreas]

Originally Posted by filburt1

Encryption is two-way

Not "really" if you are using a one-way function

[SupaJ]

<cfset hash1 = "#hash('lakisic1')# . salt">
<cfset hash2 = "#hash(hash1)# . ******">
<cfoutput>#hash(hash2)#</cfoutput>

That's what I tried. Any other ideas?