CakePHP 3 cipherseed removal and password migration - HELP

This is a scenario that is true to me and it is leading me to take the decision to not upgrade to Cake3 at this moment.

I have 2 applications and one has to communicate with another. One application has been fully built with the latest stable version of cake 2 and the new application, that is on legacy code, was going to be using cake 3 so we could benefit of all of the new perks. Unfortunately with the removal of the cipherseed and the cipher functions a password that was generated in cake2 now can't be used in cake3.

Example of password encryption results using CakePHP 2.6 and CakePHP 3

password =  changeme

Salt and Cipherseed where kept the same among both versions.

CakePHP 2.6

HashClass = Simple

HashType = SHA256

Encryption result = cb15d8050a3da1c302e62d27b57e128fb4aef8207b39cd17d44afb3838390c43

CakePHP 3

HashClass = Weak

HashType = SHA256

Encryption result = c88333b093105e07acff5b19be6fbaf51e6482b1

I had asked this on twitter before and the response that I got was that there would be backwards compatibility if you were using Simple password hasher in CakePHP 2.6 and upgraded it to CakePHP 3 so I wouldn't need to change all my users passwords through the database or force them to reset their password.

Based on the result above I don't see how I can use the same password system from Cake 2 to Cake 3 and it also doesn't seem like it is using the hashType set on config.

Is there anything I'm missing here. Can anyone help?

I need to decide really quick if I will move forth with Cake 3 or keep development with Cake 2.

Thanks in advance.

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