From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 25 04:58:29 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id EAA12975 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 25 Sep 1997 04:58:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from BIGFUN.vwcom.com (BIGFUN.vwcom.com [151.197.101.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id EAA12970 for ; Thu, 25 Sep 1997 04:58:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from WillsCreek.COM (gw.willscreek.com [151.197.101.46]) by BIGFUN.vwcom.com (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id HAA11095 for ; Thu, 25 Sep 1997 07:53:49 -0400 (EDT) Received: from current.willscreek.com (current.willscreek.com [172.16.87.1]) by WillsCreek.COM (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id HAA23699 for ; Thu, 25 Sep 1997 07:58:25 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from bmc@localhost) by current.willscreek.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id HAA01649; Thu, 25 Sep 1997 07:58:23 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 25 Sep 1997 07:58:23 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199709251158.HAA01649@current.willscreek.com> From: Brian Clapper MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Interested in how MD5 passwords work In-Reply-To: <129049693@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.23 under Emacs 19.34.1 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Matt Behrens wrote: > Hi, > > I am interested in researching exactly how the MD5 password encryption > method works. Could someone point out to me just where in the source this > is performed? Or (better yet) give a description? :) (current) ~ > man md5 MD5(1) MD5(1) NAME md5 - calculate a message-digest fingerprint (checksum) for a file [ yadda yadda yadda ] SEE ALSO cksum(1) RFC 1321 describes in detail the MD2, MD4, and MD5 mes- sage-digest algorithms. RFC 1321 can be found here, among other places: http://ds.internic.net/rfc/rfc1321.txt ----- Brian Clapper, bmc@WillsCreek.COM, http://WWW.WillsCreek.COM/ You auto buy now.