From: Tim Bates <tim@...>
Date: 2004-02-22T11:22:27+09:00
Subject: Calculating a cryptographic MD5 hash

Hi folks,
I want to generate an MD5 hash of a password in the same format as is 
written to /etc/shadow. All the MD5-related libraries I can find 
(including the one in the standard distribution) are aimed at doing MD5 
checksums of strings or files, which isn't what I want. Can someone 
suggest how to do what I want (either by using a library I haven't 
discovered yet or adapting the MD5 checksum to do it)?

Tim.

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Tim Bates
tim@bates.id.au