Password Encoding Reference

How to encode passwords for SharkScope API authentication

Overview

Together with the application name, SharkScope will provide you with an application key. This is an alphanumeric key in lowercase. All MD5 encoded passwords must be re-encoded using MD5 encoding the second time post-fixed with the application key.

The encoding process is: MD5(MD5(password) + application_key)

Where:

  • MD5(password) - First MD5 hash of the plain text password
  • application_key - Your application key (provided by SharkScope, lowercase)
  • The result is concatenated and hashed again with MD5

Interactive Encoder

Use this tool to encode your password (client-side only, no data is sent to the server):