bionic (3) md5crypt.3trf.gz

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NAME
       md5crypt - Password hashing based on "md5"


SYNOPSIS
       package require Tcl  ?8.2?

       package require Trf  ?2.1.3?

       md5crypt password salt


DESCRIPTION
       The  command  md5crypt  is for the encryption of passwords and uses md5 as hash algorithm. An alternative
       command for the same function, but based on the older crypt(3) hash function is crypt.

       md5crypt password salt
              Encrypts the password using the specified salt and returns the generated hash value as the  result
              of the command.


SEE ALSO
       crypt, trf-intro


KEYWORDS
       authentication, crypt, hash, hashing, mac, md5, message digest, password


       Copyright (c) 1996-2003, Andreas Kupries <andreas_kupries@users.sourceforge.net>