ok, ok, if i did use crypt() (and this is why i was avoiding it)...
#include <crypt.h>
char *crypt(const char *key, const char *salt);
key is the plaintext password. from the man page,
salt is a two-character string chosen from the set
[a-zA-Z0-9./]. This string is used to perturb the algo-
rithm in one of 4096 different ways.
so salt is a two character string. but scrolling down,
If the salt starts with $1$ an MD5 based password hashing
algoritm is applied. The salt should consist off $1$ fol-
lowed with eight characters.
so just to be clear, if i wanted old style DES encryption, i'd supply a 2
character salt, but if i wanted md5 style encryption, i'd supply an 8
character salt? (and both salts are null terminated strings).
pete
On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> i was hoping to avoid that...
>
> pete
>
> > You could just write your own - see crypt(3).
> >
> > Micah
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