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

Dev

polyzium December 6, 2023, 12:09am 7

Sorry, I am currently not in a position to tell you as timezones are annoying. It’s very late out here and I could only do so next day.

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