"Robert B. Easter" wrote:
>
> On Sun, 07 May 2000, Hannu Krosing wrote:
> >
> > But how will you know if the data in the field is md5 hashed ?
>
> I think they begin with $1$ and that the salt in the hashed string is like this:
how do you distinguish it from a plaintext password thet starts with $1$
?
> $1$<salt>$ -- a total of 12 characters of salt if you include the $1$$
> characters. <salt> is 9 characters. Someone can correct me if this is not
> true. I'm not an expert. :)
Well in Zope they begin with {MD5} for MD5 hash. The md5 hash itself
knows
nothing about salt - it is just fed to the function before the password.
And the digest can begin with anything, possibly even \0 if not
{uu|base64}encoded
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Hannu