On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 03:13:39PM +0530, Hari wrote:
> Hi all,
> I use openssl-0.9.6 on a RedHat Linux 7.0 system as well as LynxOS system, both
>on i386 machines.
> I use the crypt() function defined in (ssldir)/crypt/des/fcrypt.c
> The output of crypt remains same for passwords with the same first 8 characters.
> I would like to know the maximum length of the password argument to
>crypt(password, salt) function.
>
> Thanks for any help,
> Hari.
Modern forms of crypt() using the $1$salt$ MD5sum form of the salt generate unique
crypt strings for any length of password
>From the man pages
If the salt starts with $1$ an MD5 based password hashing
algoritm is applied. The salt should consist off $1$ followed
with eight characters.
off should read of :)
Kind Regards
Crispin
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