Mash was invented by myself to hash a password into a key that is longer than the output of the hash function. Today you might want to consider the functions in pwdbased.h, which are specified in industry standards. (They weren't available when I wrote Mash.)
On Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 01:09:10PM +0200, Christian Stigen Larsen wrote: > Hi, > > can anyone tell me what is the algorithm used with the Mash function in > default.cpp ? It seems to be using standard hashes in a specific way. When > should one use the Mash function? I thought of using it in conjunction with > a salt value to produce a better hash for a certain purpose. > > -- > Christian Stigen Larsen -- http://csl.sublevel3.org -- mob: +47 98 22 02 15
