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| author | Konstantin Shemyak <konstantin@shemyak.com> | 2017-09-04 21:53:51 +0300 |
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| committer | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2017-09-05 19:47:52 +0200 |
| commit | 893c609dcd041af8ac4262cdaaea1625a998702e (patch) | |
| tree | 33056f1313aaae4f0a27f7e3560124d6c35f5c44 /man3/crypt.3 | |
| parent | 266d8f7ef13f96ac7d187bd9dc50c3ae9bcf5e26 (diff) | |
| download | man-pages-893c609dcd041af8ac4262cdaaea1625a998702e.tar.gz | |
crypt.3: Encryption isn't done with SHA-xxx, but with a function based on SHA-xxx
The encryption is done by glibc functions __shaxxx_crypt_r() in
files crypt/shaxxx-crypt.c. They implement a nontrivial algorithm
to construct the inputs for the hashing functions and to apply
them iteratively.
Signed-off-by: Konstantin Shemyak <konstantin@shemyak.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'man3/crypt.3')
| -rw-r--r-- | man3/crypt.3 | 6 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/man3/crypt.3 b/man3/crypt.3 index 4d4bd55166..1bd85093b4 100644 --- a/man3/crypt.3 +++ b/man3/crypt.3 @@ -227,9 +227,9 @@ _ .TE .RE .PP -So $5$\fIsalt\fP$\fIencrypted\fP is an SHA-256 encoded -password and $6$\fIsalt\fP$\fIencrypted\fP is an -SHA-512 encoded one. +So $5$\fIsalt\fP$\fIencrypted\fP and $6$\fIsalt\fP$\fIencrypted\fP +contain the password encrypted correspondingly with a function +based on SHA-256 and SHA-512. .PP "\fIsalt\fP" stands for the up to 16 characters following "$\fIid\fP$" in the salt. |