[Skip to main content](#vessel-content) # Authorize.net Phasing Out MD5 transHash ## - **[DavidVogt](/forum/user/40153-davidvogt "View DavidVogt's Profile")** - [![DavidVogt's Avatar](https://www.hikashop.com/media/kunena/core/svg/person.svg)](/forum/user/40153-davidvogt "View DavidVogt's Profile") - [ Offline](/forum/user/40153-davidvogt) Less More - Posts: 22 - Thank you received: 1 - - 7 years 4 months ago [\#308409](#308409) by [DavidVogt](/forum/user/40153-davidvogt "View DavidVogt's Profile") Replied by *[DavidVogt](/forum/user/40153-davidvogt "View DavidVogt's Profile")* on topic *[Authorize.net Phasing Out MD5 transHash](/forum/29-payment-methods/896648-authorize-net-phasing-out-md5-transhash?start=40#308409 "-- url of the page with the problem -- : n/a -- HikaShop version -- : 4.0.1 -- Joomla version -- : n/a -- PHP version -- : n/a -- Browser(s) name and version -- : n/a -- Error-message(debug-mod must be tuned on) -- : n/a Please advise when an update is available for this issue from Authorize.net. It is not urgent for existing HikaShop accounts as they have not given a phase out date. However, new accounts will not be able to use the MD5 next month. Thx — EMAIL RECEIVED 1/11/19: Authorize.Net is phasing out the MD5 based transHash element in favor of the SHA-256 based transHashSHA2. The setting in the Merchant Interface which controls the MD5 Hash option will be removed by the end of January 2019, and the transHash element will stop returning values at a later date to be determined. We have identified that you have this feature configured and may be relying on MD5 based transHash in transaction responses for verifying the sender is Authorize.Net. Please contact and work with your web developer or solutions provider to verify if you are still utilizing MD5 based hash and if still needed to move to SHA-256 hash via Signature Key. Please refer your developer or solution provider to our Transaction Hash Upgrade Guide for more details and information on this change. Additionally, please take a moment to complete this one question survey and provide details on the application used to connect to Authorize.Net. Thank you for your attention to this matter and for being an Authorize.Net merchant. Sincerely, Authorize.Net")* Hi Nicolas, Thank you so much for the prompt reply -- always very much appreciated. You can reproduce this by attempting to purchase anything from this site: [ www.tekneticsdirect.com](https://www.tekneticsdirect.com) I wasn't able to see any CSS that would interfere, nor any javascript errors. Any insight would be greatly appreciated, as I have an important client waiting for a solution. Thanks so much! 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It is not urgent for existing HikaShop accounts as they have not given a phase out date. However, new accounts will not be able to use the MD5 next month. Thx — EMAIL RECEIVED 1/11/19: Authorize.Net is phasing out the MD5 based transHash element in favor of the SHA-256 based transHashSHA2. The setting in the Merchant Interface which controls the MD5 Hash option will be removed by the end of January 2019, and the transHash element will stop returning values at a later date to be determined. We have identified that you have this feature configured and may be relying on MD5 based transHash in transaction responses for verifying the sender is Authorize.Net. Please contact and work with your web developer or solutions provider to verify if you are still utilizing MD5 based hash and if still needed to move to SHA-256 hash via Signature Key. Please refer your developer or solution provider to our Transaction Hash Upgrade Guide for more details and information on this change. Additionally, please take a moment to complete this one question survey and provide details on the application used to connect to Authorize.Net. Thank you for your attention to this matter and for being an Authorize.Net merchant. Sincerely, Authorize.Net")* Hello, You will need to provide a step by step process with all details like which kind of user account do you use, which product, which payment methods etc etc... Because we make some tests on your website, and it seems that everything works well, see my screenshot : [ ![[img](https://i.imgur.com/ncg9C7y.png) ](https://i.imgur.com/ncg9C7y.png "[img") Regards Please [Log in](/login?return=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuaGlrYXNob3AuY29tL2ZvcnVtLzI5LXBheW1lbnQtbWV0aG9kcy84OTY2NDgtYXV0aG9yaXplLW5ldC1waGFzaW5nLW91dC1tZDUtdHJhbnNoYXNoP3N0YXJ0PTQwJnRtcGw9bWFya2Rvd24=) or [Create an account](/component/users/registration?Itemid=101) to join the conversation. - **[DavidVogt](/forum/user/40153-davidvogt "View DavidVogt's Profile")** - [![DavidVogt's Avatar](https://www.hikashop.com/media/kunena/core/svg/person.svg)](/forum/user/40153-davidvogt "View DavidVogt's Profile") - [ Offline](/forum/user/40153-davidvogt) Less More - Posts: 22 - Thank you received: 1 - - 7 years 4 months ago [\#308445](#308445) by [DavidVogt](/forum/user/40153-davidvogt "View DavidVogt's Profile") Replied by *[DavidVogt](/forum/user/40153-davidvogt "View DavidVogt's Profile")* on topic *[Authorize.net Phasing Out MD5 transHash](/forum/29-payment-methods/896648-authorize-net-phasing-out-md5-transhash?start=40#308445 "-- url of the page with the problem -- : n/a -- HikaShop version -- : 4.0.1 -- Joomla version -- : n/a -- PHP version -- : n/a -- Browser(s) name and version -- : n/a -- Error-message(debug-mod must be tuned on) -- : n/a Please advise when an update is available for this issue from Authorize.net. It is not urgent for existing HikaShop accounts as they have not given a phase out date. However, new accounts will not be able to use the MD5 next month. Thx — EMAIL RECEIVED 1/11/19: Authorize.Net is phasing out the MD5 based transHash element in favor of the SHA-256 based transHashSHA2. The setting in the Merchant Interface which controls the MD5 Hash option will be removed by the end of January 2019, and the transHash element will stop returning values at a later date to be determined. We have identified that you have this feature configured and may be relying on MD5 based transHash in transaction responses for verifying the sender is Authorize.Net. Please contact and work with your web developer or solutions provider to verify if you are still utilizing MD5 based hash and if still needed to move to SHA-256 hash via Signature Key. Please refer your developer or solution provider to our Transaction Hash Upgrade Guide for more details and information on this change. Additionally, please take a moment to complete this one question survey and provide details on the application used to connect to Authorize.Net. Thank you for your attention to this matter and for being an Authorize.Net merchant. Sincerely, Authorize.Net")* Hi Philip, thanks for getting back. Please make sure to choose Authorize.net during checkout, since PayPal appears to be working fine. The problem occurs with any product in the shop. 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It is not urgent for existing HikaShop accounts as they have not given a phase out date. However, new accounts will not be able to use the MD5 next month. Thx — EMAIL RECEIVED 1/11/19: Authorize.Net is phasing out the MD5 based transHash element in favor of the SHA-256 based transHashSHA2. The setting in the Merchant Interface which controls the MD5 Hash option will be removed by the end of January 2019, and the transHash element will stop returning values at a later date to be determined. We have identified that you have this feature configured and may be relying on MD5 based transHash in transaction responses for verifying the sender is Authorize.Net. Please contact and work with your web developer or solutions provider to verify if you are still utilizing MD5 based hash and if still needed to move to SHA-256 hash via Signature Key. Please refer your developer or solution provider to our Transaction Hash Upgrade Guide for more details and information on this change. Additionally, please take a moment to complete this one question survey and provide details on the application used to connect to Authorize.Net. Thank you for your attention to this matter and for being an Authorize.Net merchant. Sincerely, Authorize.Net")* Hello, You use an **2.6.4** HikaShop version with a more recent plugin, and so this kind of issue isn't really a surprise. From this several solution for you : - **Update** your HikaShop - Don't use such **recent payment plugin**. Sorry for this return. Regards Last edit: 7 years 4 months ago by [Philip](/forum/user/34318-philip "View Philip's Profile"). 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It is not urgent for existing HikaShop accounts as they have not given a phase out date. However, new accounts will not be able to use the MD5 next month. Thx — EMAIL RECEIVED 1/11/19: Authorize.Net is phasing out the MD5 based transHash element in favor of the SHA-256 based transHashSHA2. The setting in the Merchant Interface which controls the MD5 Hash option will be removed by the end of January 2019, and the transHash element will stop returning values at a later date to be determined. We have identified that you have this feature configured and may be relying on MD5 based transHash in transaction responses for verifying the sender is Authorize.Net. Please contact and work with your web developer or solutions provider to verify if you are still utilizing MD5 based hash and if still needed to move to SHA-256 hash via Signature Key. Please refer your developer or solution provider to our Transaction Hash Upgrade Guide for more details and information on this change. Additionally, please take a moment to complete this one question survey and provide details on the application used to connect to Authorize.Net. Thank you for your attention to this matter and for being an Authorize.Net merchant. Sincerely, Authorize.Net")* Hi Philip, yes, it’s an older version of HikaShop. Updating is on the to do list but it’s a big task and my client needs to be able to receive payments now. Do you have any ideas how we could make this plugin at least work for now? 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It is not urgent for existing HikaShop accounts as they have not given a phase out date. However, new accounts will not be able to use the MD5 next month. Thx — EMAIL RECEIVED 1/11/19: Authorize.Net is phasing out the MD5 based transHash element in favor of the SHA-256 based transHashSHA2. The setting in the Merchant Interface which controls the MD5 Hash option will be removed by the end of January 2019, and the transHash element will stop returning values at a later date to be determined. We have identified that you have this feature configured and may be relying on MD5 based transHash in transaction responses for verifying the sender is Authorize.Net. Please contact and work with your web developer or solutions provider to verify if you are still utilizing MD5 based hash and if still needed to move to SHA-256 hash via Signature Key. Please refer your developer or solution provider to our Transaction Hash Upgrade Guide for more details and information on this change. Additionally, please take a moment to complete this one question survey and provide details on the application used to connect to Authorize.Net. Thank you for your attention to this matter and for being an Authorize.Net merchant. Sincerely, Authorize.Net")* In the file authorize_end.php of the plugin, change the line: hikaInput::get()->set('noform',1); to: JRequest::setVar('noform',1); and in the file authorize.php of the plugin, change the line: $value = hikaInput::get()->getString($key); to: $value = JRequest::getVar($key); Note that you might have other issues using the plugin as this version of the plugin was made for HikaShop 4.x and recent versions of Joomla. 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It is not urgent for existing HikaShop accounts as they have not given a phase out date. However, new accounts will not be able to use the MD5 next month. Thx — EMAIL RECEIVED 1/11/19: Authorize.Net is phasing out the MD5 based transHash element in favor of the SHA-256 based transHashSHA2. The setting in the Merchant Interface which controls the MD5 Hash option will be removed by the end of January 2019, and the transHash element will stop returning values at a later date to be determined. We have identified that you have this feature configured and may be relying on MD5 based transHash in transaction responses for verifying the sender is Authorize.Net. Please contact and work with your web developer or solutions provider to verify if you are still utilizing MD5 based hash and if still needed to move to SHA-256 hash via Signature Key. Please refer your developer or solution provider to our Transaction Hash Upgrade Guide for more details and information on this change. Additionally, please take a moment to complete this one question survey and provide details on the application used to connect to Authorize.Net. Thank you for your attention to this matter and for being an Authorize.Net merchant. Sincerely, Authorize.Net")* Nicolas — Thank you, thank you, thank you. That worked great. You saved me a lot of work and I really appreciate that. Please [Log in](/login?return=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuaGlrYXNob3AuY29tL2ZvcnVtLzI5LXBheW1lbnQtbWV0aG9kcy84OTY2NDgtYXV0aG9yaXplLW5ldC1waGFzaW5nLW91dC1tZDUtdHJhbnNoYXNoP3N0YXJ0PTQwJnRtcGw9bWFya2Rvd24=) or [Create an account](/component/users/registration?Itemid=101) to join the conversation. 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