RE: [cobalt-security] booting password crackers...

[Sales - Way to the Web <sales@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Mike,

> Thank you -- very useful information indeed. I have not 
> tested it, but I
> assume that htpasswd and the perl crypt automatically and 
> randomly generates
> the salt before doing the encryption and storing.

htpasswd - yes
perl crypt function - no, you have to supply your own salt

Regards,
Jonathan Michaelson

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