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Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 01:57:28 -0400 (EDT)
From: Walter Campbell <wcampbel@botbay.net>
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Subject: Re: Generating encrypted passwords 
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On Tue, 10 Jul 2001, Gregory Bond wrote:

> > /usr/libexec/makekey
>
> Thanks.  That'll do, even tho it's pretty clumsy and DES only (no MD5
> passwords) and doesn't pick a salt for you.
>
> I might look at beefing it up a bit.  (OK, a lot!)

Most IRC servers include an mkpasswd utility.  Hybrid 7 comes with one
that can generate both DES and MD5, and allows you to specify a salt,
or have it generate a random one.  I put a copy of it up at
http://ircd.botbay.net/pub/Other_Tools/mkpasswd.c (or
ftp://ircd.botbay.net/pub/Other_Tools/mkpasswd.c )


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