Spring Security Encrypt MD5

Question

I have a java web application using spring framework and spring security for its login. In my database I have my passwords encrypted to MD5 before being saved. I added in my app

Answer 1

I realize this is a little late, but Spring has built-in classes that make this a lot easier.

@Test
public void testSpringEncoder() {
    PasswordEncoder encoder = new Md5PasswordEncoder();
    String hashedPass = encoder.encodePassword("koala", null);

    assertEquals("a564de63c2d0da68cf47586ee05984d7", hashedPass);
}

This is a unit test that I wrote using the built in Spring Security code, it is a lot smaller than the MessageDigest code and since you are using Spring Security already, you should have the classes in your classpath already.