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md5crypt(n)                                                                                      md5crypt(n)



NAME
       md5crypt - Password hashing based on "md5"

SYNOPSIS
       package require Tcl  ?8.2?

       package require Trf  ?2.1p2?

       md5crypt password salt


DESCRIPTION
       The  command  md5crypt is for the encryption of passwords and uses md5 as hash algorithm. An alterna-tive alternative
       tive 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
       Copyright (c) 1996-2003, Andreas Kupries <andreas_kupries@users.sourceforge.net>




Trf transformer commands                            2.1p2                                        md5crypt(n)