more secure crypt() function

[Marco Herrn]

On 2003-10-04, Paul Rubin <> wrote:
>> I hope my intention is clear....
>
> No your question isn't clear.

I was afraid this would be the case.

> If you just mean you want to use salted passwords the way unix
> password files do, use can use md5 or sha.

Yes, that was what I wanted.
But it seems that was searching in the wrong direction. What I need the
function for is only the hashing, not the verification against the hash.
Because of that I wanted to be sure that the hashes could be verified
with the same function (that means I wouldn't have to reconfigure exim).
But I was wrong. I can tell exim to use md5() instead of crypt(). So
they are not what I called 'compatible'.
Thanks for your help.


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