Module Name: src
Committed By: christos
Date: Wed Mar 25 21:24:08 UTC 2020
Modified Files:
src/lib/libcrypt: pw_gensalt.3
Log Message:
more info
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Index: src/lib/libcrypt/pw_gensalt.3
diff -u src/lib/libcrypt/pw_gensalt.3:1.4 src/lib/libcrypt/pw_gensalt.3:1.5
--- src/lib/libcrypt/pw_gensalt.3:1.4 Wed Mar 25 17:02:26 2020
+++ src/lib/libcrypt/pw_gensalt.3 Wed Mar 25 17:24:08 2020
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $NetBSD: pw_gensalt.3,v 1.4 2020/03/25 21:02:26 christos Exp $
+.\" $NetBSD: pw_gensalt.3,v 1.5 2020/03/25 21:24:08 christos Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 2020 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.
.\" All rights reserved.
@@ -56,13 +56,20 @@ using the hash function specified in
with the function-specific
.Ar option .
.Pp
-The new salt types follow the MCF standard and are of the form:
+The new salt types follow the
+.Dq Modular Crypt Format
+(MCF) standard and are of the form:
+.Bd -literal -offset indent
.Li $<id>[$<param>=<value>(,<param>=<value>)*][$<salt>[$<hash>]]
+.Ed
+.Pp
The characters allowed in the password salt are alphanumeric and
-include a forward slash and a period.
+include a forward slash and a period (are in the regular expression
+format
+.Li [A-Za-z0-9/.] ) .
.Pp
The following types are available:
-.Bl -tag -width blowfish -compact
+.Bl -tag -width blowfish -offset indent
.It old
The original Unix implementation.
This is of the form
@@ -117,7 +124,7 @@ A salt generated using the
.Sq blowfish
algorithm.
The minimum salt size is
-.Dv 31
+.Dv 30
and the number of rounds needs to be specified in
.Ar option .
This is of the form:
@@ -157,3 +164,8 @@ The
.Fn pw_gensalt
function was written in 1997 by
.An Niels Provos Aq Mt [email protected] .
+.Pp
+The
+.Lk https://passlib.readthedocs.io/en/stable/modular_crypt_format.html "Modular Crypt Format (MCF)" .
+The
+.Lk https://github.com/P-H-C/phc-string-format/blob/master/phc-sf-spec.md "Password Hashing Competition (PHC) format" .
