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I've been working on a group project for about 8 months now developing web software (cant state specifics since its one of a kind) and I'm having problems with MD5 hashes. They seem to generate different for the same string and obviously that's not going to work. Here is the reason: The client is going to register an account and obviously the account is going to be in a database. The password is going to be converted to MD5 and when the user tries to log in, the script converts their attempted password to MD5, compare and grant access/deny. But if the hash generates different every time for the same string then its useless.

I'm stuck. Any ideas??

Edit: Well, turns out symbols confuse the hell out of MD5. So I guess I'll edit the Registration page to not accept symbols.

What language are you using? I've never heard of that before, seems very odd.

It's impossible.

MD5 is MD5 is MD5…

It's a specific function, unless the developer wrote the function wrong, they should output the same thing.

They may have different cases tho, so try lower-casing or upper-casing the string?

Honestly I'm stuck, I can't answer any questions because everything I know is in my post -.- Its 2 am so idk if my brains not functioning as it should or It really doesn't work, kind of considering using a different method now. Ill find out in the morning if its me or the function.

Are you using non-ascii characters?

You might want to use a more secure encryption method, md5 is pretty weak in terms of security. http://www.kellermansoftware.com/t-ArticleStrongestAlgo.aspx