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Re: Weird behavior of crypt


Hi,

On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 1:39 PM, Marco Atzeri <marco.atzeri@gmail.com> wrote:
> The passwords created by crypt(3) are 56 bit DES encrypted and are
> 100% identical to those created by the Linux crypt().

crypt(3) on Linux support SHA-256 & SHA-512, $6$ prefix means SHA-512
is requested.

Regards,
ismail

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