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Linux password encryption
Name: Jawad Bokhari Date: November 7, 2001 at 09:43:36 Pacific
Comment:
Through what algorithm, Linux stores the passoword in shadow file. (/etc/shadow)
This is some new technique found in some distribution of linux.
In Red Hat Linux 7.1, encrypted password that is stored in shadow file is of 34 bytes. The key to encrypt is of 8 bytes. Can you please tell that what algorithm is being used by linux and is there any implementation in C++ or Java of such an algorithm?
Name: Matthew Date: November 9, 2001 at 12:38:36 Pacific
Reply:
I believe linux uses either the md5sum or DES algorithm for its password encryption, which is a one way algorithm..I don't however know any C/C++ or Java implementations ...Hope this helped
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