RE: Md5 based hash

2002-06-18 Thread Sivaselvam CN
MD5 ... Anyhow, I'm not familiar with feeding a seed or a salt into any hash functions like these ... the unix crypt() for shadow passwords uses a 2 byte salt, but I believe that is irrelevant for MD5,etc But this definately should produce the same output on different architectures, et

RE: machine independent hash

2002-06-18 Thread Sivaselvam CN
se, I think I have it right. MIchael On Mon, 17 Jun 2002, Sivaselvam CN wrote: > Hi All, > > I am in need of a secure "one way hash" algorithm and I want to use > right one available with the OpenSSL. I want to store passwords after > one way hashing so that the passw