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Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 22:10:59 +0400
From: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
To: john-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: hah what format ?

On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 08:03:13PM +0200, websiteaccess wrote:
>  But there is something I don't understand : 
> 
>  go to http://www.insidepro.com/hashes.php?lang=eng
>  type "pierre" then check the md5(unix) (I suppose md5(unix) = 
> MD5-based crypt(3)) field. it's not 
> $1$6ujiFow0$gjGySuCT6BCfPRmD2QtgS.  it's 
> $1$5dwRneY/$.ca9liWeSOSt0z6So2JuN1

That's because these are salted hashes and you're not providing a
specific salt, so the system picks a random(?) salt for you.  At the URL
above, you can enter "pierre" for the password and "6ujiFow0" for the
salt, then you get your expected hash in the proper output field.

Alexander

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