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Subject: Re: hash-password length relation (was: Password security)
From: Matthew Seaman <matthew.seaman@tornadogroup.com>
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On Thu, 2002-06-20 at 15:43, Antoine Beaupre wrote:

> Does the length of the encrypted password grow with the length of the 
> password?

claudette:~:% perl -e 'print crypt("a", "\$1\$xxxxxx"), "\n";'
$1$xxxxxx$hklG2XADzlXp57Uqb/fBM0
claudette:~:% perl -e 'print crypt("a"x100, "\$1\$xxxxxx"), "\n";'
$1$xxxxxx$tRvOgaXGQf37NFBo31ZVv1

No.

	Matthew

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