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

Have you read 6.3.3 Hashing and Authentication section from Spring Security reference manual? It mentioned some possible issues that you might encounter in using password hashing.

Some possibilities it listed:

• Database password hash might be in Base64, while the result from MD5PasswordEncoder is in hexadecimal strings
• Your password hash might be in upper-case, while the result from the encoder is in lower case strings