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Subject: Re: Passwd format? 
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Ivan Voras writes:
> How are the values encoded? This looks something like base64.

Yes; it is similar to base64.

> Is it possible to actually verify the password against this format using 
> only a bare implementation of the md5 algorithm?

No. Well, it may be, but it would need to be called a few times on some very 
specific strings. Best look at the source in src/lib/libcrypt/ to see how it 
works.

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