Working implementation of crypt() in Java?

Nick Johnson freebsd at spatula.net
Mon May 22 18:12:28 UTC 2006


On Tue, 23 May 2006, Jiawei Ye wrote:

> If you need to use MD5/SHA1 and friends, you can use them from JDK directly.

That would work if FreeBSD encrypted passwords were just MD5's.  They're 
not.  There's actually a rather convoluted algorithm that's based on MD5, 
but it's not just MD5 by itself.

    Nick

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