NAME¶

md5crypt - Password hashing based on "md5"

SYNOPSIS¶

package require Tcl ?8.2? package require Trf ?2.1.3? md5crypt password salt

DESCRIPTION¶

The command md5crypt is for the encryption of passwords and uses md5 as hash algorithm. An alternative 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>