How to use MD5 in javascript to transmit a password

Question

I have a jquery dialog modal box pop up for logging into my website. When a user clicks login it does a post request to a login.php file as follows:

$.post(       'includes/login.php',        { user: username, pass: password },       onLogin,        'json' ); 

How do I do an md5 on that password before putting it in the post request? Also, I have the user's passwords stored in a MySQL database using MD5(), so I would like to just compare the stored version of the password with the MD5 of the password submitted. Thanks to anyone that replies.

Answer 1

crypto-js is a rich javascript library containing many cryptography algorithms.

All you have to do is just call CryptoJS.MD5(password)

$.post(   'includes/login.php',    { user: username, pass: CryptoJS.MD5(password) },   onLogin,    'json' );