Password encryption with Spring/Hibernate - Jasypt or something else? [closed]

Answer 1

MD5 or SHA-256 would be fine, although MD5 is crackable now.

Maybe I misunderstood the problem, but it should be just comparing the hashed passwords.

In hibernate, just store as a String. On the validation side, have a method like:

public validate(String user, String pass)
{
    if(getUser(user).getPass().equals(getHash(pass)))
        return true;
    return false;
}