/* * Creates a MD5 based hash of a password * * To validate a entered password, use the previously calculated * password hash as salt, and then compare the result. If identical * then the password matches. * * While encoding a password the salt should be 8 randomly selected * characters from the base64 alphabet, for example generated as follows: * char salt[9]; * to64(salt, rand(), 4); * to64(salt+4, rand(), 4); * salt[0] = '\0'; */ #ifndef _CRYPT_MD5_H #define _CRYPT_MD5_H char *crypt_md5(const char *pw, const char *salt); /* MD5 hash without salt */ char *md5sum(const char *s); #endif /* _CRYPT_MD5_H */