Re: Unix Password Encryption Procedures

From: Bill Marcum (bmarcum_at_iglou.com.urgent)
Date: 09/28/04

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    Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 18:59:01 -0400

    On 27 Sep 2004 13:39:48 -0700, Kushal Agarwal
      <kushal.agarwal@gmail.com> wrote:
    > Additonally, I know that the function crypt() is able to encrypt using
    > either the DES or the MD5 algorithm, depending on the salt supplied
    > with the function. I am curious as to given an encrypted string, is
    > there any "clean" (via a function(s)) way to determine what method was
    > used to encrypt the original string. I need to know how the original
    > string was encrypted so that I can use the same procedure to encrypt
    > the entered string (so that I may compare the stored and entered
    > strings).
    >
    Look for the source code to "crack" or "john the ripper". 

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