From: Thomas E Enebo <enebo@...>
Date: 2005-02-25T07:49:05+09:00
Subject: Re: MD5 Password creation

On Fri, 25 Feb 2005, Thomas E Enebo defenestrated me:

> On Fri, 25 Feb 2005, Ian Macdonald defenestrated me:
> > 
> > Can you show me your output?
> > 
> > It works for me:
> > 
> > [ianmacd@foobar]$ irb
> > irb(main):001:0> require 'password'
> > => true
> > irb(main):002:0> "foo".crypt('$1$abcdefgh')
> > => "$1$abcdefgh$XxzGe9Muun7wTYbZO4sdr0"
> > 
> > A smaller salt works, too:
> > 
> > irb(main):003:0> "foo".crypt('$1$ab')
> > => "$1$ab$KdoFYgkGJOZ629oOkVUuD."
> 
>   Should they both output the same length digest (128 bit)?
> Your second one looks a little short...

  Whoops I just noticed this is prepending the salt :)
Nevermind....

-Tom

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