Hi. This is probably a stupid question, but we have been migrating our forum from XenForo over to Discourse. We have a backend server for authorization which involves connecting to the database and verifying credentials against the users table. XenForo’s bcrypt algorithm worked as expected, and wit…

Nevermind. I had to use the hex representation of the salt as the argument, not the decoded salt like I was doing in the post above. Now the hashes are equal.

Using Discourse as an account provider and PBKDF2 problems

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supermathie (Michael Brown) December 7, 2023, 2:49am 10

This was also my theory! I made the same mistake at first.

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