Question

I’m trying to write the equivalent of

$password = Security::hash('text pw', null, true)

In CakePHP, that creates a security hash that will validate for “text pw” when a user logs in. I tried so far, in Rails:

password = Digest::MD5.hexdigest("text pw")

But that doesn’t authenticate when I try to log into the CakePHP app.

Answer 1

@Jeff Ancel was really close. This is how Cake does it and what I ended up using:

require 'digest/sha1'
hashed_pw = Digest::SHA1.hexdigest(cake_security_salt + text_password)

Hope that helps someone.