Reimplement ASP.NET Membership and User Password Hashing in Ruby

Question

I have a large database of users (~200,000) that I\'m transferring from a ASP.NET application to a Ruby on Rails application. I don\'t really want to ask every user to rese

Answer 1

Just a quick update, a colleague of mine has solved this:

require "base64"
require "digest"
require "jcode"


def encode_password(password, salt)
 bytes = ""
 password.each_char { |c| bytes += c + "\x00" }
 salty = Base64.decode64(salt)
 concat = salty+bytes
 sha1 = Digest::SHA1.digest(concat)
 encoded = Base64.encode64(sha1).strip()
 puts encoded
end