Same Problem Here.
Can Someone Help Me please?

MD5 has always -- or mostly been thought of as a one way hashing algorithm.  You MD5 a string and there is no real way to go back from the hash to the clear text string.  For this reason it is used by lots of systems as the hashing mechanism for passwords.

Over the last six months we have seen explosive growth in something called a "rainbow table" which is essentially a huge database of clear text strings and words matched up with MD5 strings.  Think of it as a dictionary of sorts.  With this, I can take the MD5 strings of almost all short passwords (how many of us REALLY have long ones) and get a clear text password in seconds or sooner.

The modification of adding the random salt string means that your password  string is now padded by 16 characters (in 1.0) and 32 characters (in 1.5) which makes use of these "rainbow tables" much much more difficult.

This isn't about name calling or any of that stuff, I was just surprised to see that the Community Builder team was unaware or unprepared for this change given that Beat was the one who raised the call to arms to make the change Smiley  No biggie, and I thank him for the heads up on the matter.

Louis

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