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From: Andy Farkas <andyf@speednet.com.au>
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Subject: Re: MS5 password salt calculation
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On Sun, 30 Dec 2001, Bill Vermillion wrote:

> ... You should also not[e] that the
> next $ is the salt separator, and on my system there are typically 8
> digits after $1$ and before the next $, for 2trillion+ salts.
>
> Bill

Its interesting that my master.passwd file circa 2.2.x days has only 5
chars between the $'s, yet more recent ones have 8.

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