From: gabriele renzi <surrender_it@...1.vip.lng.yahoo.com>
Date: 2003-01-04T13:15:18+09:00
Subject: Re: md5 algorithms

On Sat, 4 Jan 2003 03:56:20 +0900, Charles Blackburn
<charlesb@summerfield-technology.co.uk> wrote:

>I meant to ask. is there a way to specify the salt ??
>

I suppose you're rferring to the ~md5 format of BSD 
(imported in other system) passwd files.

That's not the real MD5, but something alike.

Probably they're just adding a salt string to the password, 
maybe simply concatenating them, dunno .

Maybe we could have such a thing in some external module, maybe
Ruby::Auth , 


PS
I seem to remember that this is called MD5-crypt instead of MD5, but
maybe I just have to sleep a little