# Update Password Encryption Method

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/update-password-encryption-method/316314>\
**Category:** Development\
**Created:** [July 15, 2024, 11:54am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/update-password-encryption-method/316314 "2024-07-15T11:54:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![pfaffman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/pfaffman/32/120154_2.png) [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)\
**Post date:** [July 16, 2024, 12:31pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/update-password-encryption-method/316314/7 "2024-07-16T12:31:28Z")

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You still haven’t said what problem you’re trying to solve. Can you say more about what MD 5 is solving?

You still need to implement whatever changes you make on a plugin. Have you started to learn how plugins work?

But I bet what you really want is to have discourse authenticate against your existing app, in case you just need to implement discourse\_connect and discourse won’t need to know about your choices in password storage.

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