Hello Chris
You may confuse MD5 with DES. DES uses a salt unlike MD5.
A little hack in the code will help you. Hugh or others may
give you hints where to modify if needed.
Janos SUTO
GTS-Datanet
On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, Chris Keladis wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I'm a little unclear about encrypted passwords in a Radiator database.
>
> I would like to MD5 encrypt all our user passwords.
>
> I've been experimenting with Digest::MD5 and Crypt::PasswordMD5, and so
> far only Crypt::PasswordMD5 gives me what i see as a 'true' MD5
> password. (The salt beginning with '$1$').
>
> I'm a little confused as to the standards regarding the salt, and if
> Radiator will understand the MD5 hashed passwords i create.
>
> Am i going about the issue the wrong way? How can i store well-encrypted
> passwords in my database to be used for authentication?
>
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Chris.
>
>
> ===
> Archive at http://www.starport.net/~radiator/
> Announcements on [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> To unsubscribe, email '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' with
> 'unsubscribe radiator' in the body of the message.
>
===
Archive at http://www.starport.net/~radiator/
Announcements on [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To unsubscribe, email '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' with
'unsubscribe radiator' in the body of the message.
