md5crypt(3trf)

📦 version 2.1.4-dfsg3, in debian bookworm, debian trixie, ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble, ubuntu questing, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

✨ NAME ✨

okay so bestie, meet md5crypt — this manual page is md5crypt(3trf), and it's all about Password hashing based on "md5". no cap, that's the whole vibe. 💅

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

package require Tcl  ?8.2?

package require Trf  ?2.1.3?

md5crypt password salt

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

The command md5crypt is for the encryption of passwords and uses md5 as hash algorithm. An alternative command for the same function, but based on the older crypt(3) hash function is crypt.

  • md5crypt password salt — Encrypts the password using the specified salt and returns the generated hash value as the result of the command.

👀 SEE ALSO 👀

  • crypt
  • trf-intro

🔑 KEYWORDS 🔑

  • authentication
  • crypt
  • hash
  • hashing
  • mac
  • md5
  • message digest
  • password

Copyright (c) 1996-2003, Andreas Kupries <andreas_kupries@users.sourceforge.net>

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