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

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