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[Jimmy Wu]

On 8/21/07, Smoot Carl-Mitchell <smoot at tic.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 2007-08-21 at 15:23 -0400, Jimmy Wu wrote:
>
> >
> > Are those really Md5 hashes?  I thought (correct me if i'm wrong) that
> > an md5 hash was exactly 32 bytes of hexadecimal.
>
> Yes, they are.  The field includes the "salt". The salt is after the 2nd
> '$' and the hash is after the 3rd. e.g.
>
> $1$p4NxBGKv$YnvcH3c38b3rvwkYIHiZs.
>
> An MD5 hash is 128 bits which is encoded in the 22 characters in the
> shadow file.
> --
> Smoot Carl-Mitchell
> System/Network Architect
> email: smoot at tic.com
> cell: +1 602 421 9005
> home: +1 480 922 7313


all right, thanks

Jimmy
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