Hi All,
Looking to upgrade an old (but still solid) BV2004 store. As far as I can see the store uses the then standard BV way of storing passwords (i.e. theres no custom code in this area) in the db they look like this;



The Password field looks too short to be a standard MD5 hash i.e. 32 characters for this length of password plus I am not sure why they all end in "==".

Does anyone remember what is different to the 'standard' http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MD5

Many thanks for any pointers

Hi Aaron,

Thank you for your reply.
That makes sense, however taking the first password value in my list decoded in base64;


If I MD5 "pass1word" and then encode I get a very different length (I am ignoring salt which does not effect the length)


So this confirms (at least) that Base64 encoding increase the string length not shortens it.

Sorry to be thick, what am I missing?

Thanks