Re: md5 salt

[ Available lists | Index of freebsd-security | Month of Sep 2003 | Week of 16 Sep 2003 | Raw email | View thread | Wrap long lines | Reply | Tag ]
From
<markm@freebsd.org>
Date
16 Sep 2003 00:05:17
Subject
Re: md5 salt
Message-ID
200309160705.h8G75WCF078889@grimreaper.grondar.org

In reply to

[ Hide this part ]
Peter Pentchev writes:
> The crypt.c and crypt-md5.c files in src/lib/libcrypt/ do not really
> pose any restrictions on the salt, short of the obvious one of its
> not containing a '$' character :)
>
> I guess going with the base64 characters would be a good bet.

Any character that does not mess up master.passwd. So ":" is also a no-no.

M
--
Mark Murray
iumop ap!sdn w,I idlaH


Elapsed time: 0.081 seconds