Ronald Oussoren <[email protected]> added the comment:
As far as I know macOS does not support different salt types at all. The
manpage does mention an "extended crypt", but according to the documentation
that just controls the number of DES rounds used.
In particular:
The salt is a 9-character array consisting of an underscore, followed by
4 bytes of iteration count and 4 bytes of salt. These are encoded as
printable characters, 6 bits per character, least significant character
first. The values 0 to 63 are encoded as ``./0-9A-Za-z''. This allows
24 bits for both count and salt.
If anything needs to change it would have to be a macOS specific patch to the
_crypt extension that rejects any attempt of using algorithm selection (but
that's technically a backward incompatible change as)
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nosy: +ronaldoussoren
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