I have a database with thousands of md5 encrypted passwords and I need to migrate to sha256. What is the safest way to do this by keeping the old passwords with md5 access and the new one with sha256 encryption? Thanks.
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I have a database with thousands of md5 encrypted passwords and I need to migrate to sha256. What is the safest way to do this by keeping the old passwords with md5 access and the new one with sha256 encryption? Thanks.
Alternatively to creating a new column for the sha256 you can use the existing column for both. Because sha256 hashes are much longer than md5 hashes you can detect the hash algorithm by looking at the length of the hash.