Re: Crypt function explanation

2002-01-05 Thread Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan
On Jan 5, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >Can someone please explain what the SALT is used for, HOW should it be set, >that is, >how many characters long it should be etc. > >There is little explanation besides the example in the manual, as well as >on the camel book. The documentation points you to cr

Re: Crypt function explanation

2002-01-05 Thread smoot
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > Hi, below is a piece of code from the perl man pages. > > My question deals with: crypt PLAINTEXT, SALT > > Can someone please explain what the SALT is used for, HOW should it be set, > that is, > how many characters long it should be etc. SALT is used to vary the h