Title: Password Encryption
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Password Encryption

 *  [krustynick](https://wordpress.org/support/users/krustynick/)
 * (@krustynick)
 * [17 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/password-encryption/)
 * hi! i need to know how wordpress 2.6 encrypts the user’s password (dont say me
   that use MD5). I need to create a script to create new users and i need to know
   it. Please, i googled it but i couldn’t find any answer. Thanks, i’m looking 
   foward to hearing from you

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 *  [MichaelH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelh/)
 * (@michaelh)
 * [17 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/password-encryption/#post-894574)
 * The wp-admin/includes/upgrade.php script uses the `wp_generate_password()` function
   when it adds the admin user when doing an installation so you might start there.

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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: [MichaelH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelh/)
 * Last activity: [17 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/password-encryption/#post-894574)
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