Title: Password Encryption method
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Password Encryption method

 *  [ryanhca](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ryanhca/)
 * (@ryanhca)
 * [20 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/password-encryption-method/)
 * Hi. How are passwords encrypted in WordPress? I’d like to integrate it in with
   my current user management system, and I’m using MD5 for that… Thanks.

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 *  [Chris_K](https://wordpress.org/support/users/handysolo/)
 * (@handysolo)
 * [20 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/password-encryption-method/#post-389102)
 * To the best of my knowledge, they are indeed MD5.

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 * [encryption](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/encryption/)
 * [password](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/password/)

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 * Last reply from: [Chris_K](https://wordpress.org/support/users/handysolo/)
 * Last activity: [20 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/password-encryption-method/#post-389102)
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