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From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To: Tim Legg <legg@iastate.edu>
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On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 05:38:13PM -0500, Tim Legg wrote:

> Why is that?

If you're interested in the details of the password hashing algorithm,
refer to the source code in /usr/src/lib/libcrypt.  The md5 password
hash algorithm is a bit more complicated than a single MD5.

Kris
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