How are Joomla 3 passwords encrypted?

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I'm developing a migrate script (Joomla 3 to Drupal 7). Because I don't want to decrypt Joomla's user passwords, I want to check if the inputted password, after encryption, matches the password in my Joomla table. Just like a normal login system.

The only thing I don't know, is how Joomla's Password are encrypted in Joomla 3.x. So I want to know what happens when I enter my password in Joomla's login form.

Can anybody help me out (I prefer some PHP code)?

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 07 '15 at 18:32

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Joomla 3.2 and above uses Bcrypt as the hashing algorithm for passwords.

Anything below Joomla 3.2 uses MD5 + Salt

answered Jun 07 '15 at 18:32

Lodder

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Do you have a code snippet to encrypt a plain text password to an encrypted string, like Joomla uses? – Jordi Fuite Jun 07 '15 at 19:37
@JordiFuite - Have a look at this answer: http://stackoverflow.com/a/21304362/1362108 – Lodder Jun 07 '15 at 19:57

How are Joomla 3 passwords encrypted?

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