From: Dalibor Sramek Date: 2003-01-05T02:52:45+09:00 Subject: Re: md5 algorithms On Sat, Jan 04, 2003 at 01:15:18PM +0900, gabriele renzi 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 . Look at http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/src/lib/libcrypt/crypt-md5.c?rev=1.12&content-type=text/plain -- Dalibor Sramek http://www.insula.cz/dali | In the eyes of cats, dalibor.sramek@insula.cz | all things belong to cats.