How to migrate a password hash?

If I have passwords stored as a salted MD5 hash, but want to move them to use bcrypt, what's the best way to perform that transition? (given that I can't get the passwords back)

Should I bcrypt the md5 h开发者_运维百科ash? Are there cryptographic implications to doing that that I don't want?

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Usually, sites simply make users change their passwords. If you add a hash_version field to your users table, you can keep track of the current hash type. When someone with MD5 logs in, make them change their passwords.

After a certain amount of time, you can optionally expire all the remaining MD5 passwords (forcing users to reset to log in).