+----- On Sat, 31 Jul 1999 13:34:08 -0300, "Miguel G." writes: | Hi! | | Could anyone help me on this? : | | I need to know how to retrive cipher text from plain (right as in | /etc/passwd) but there is a salt which I don't know how complete, could | any one help me?

The salt is just a 12 bit random number, the attached script will convert a password to something suitable for your password file.

That "Random number" is not random in many unixes, and also is easy to know what number is 'cause the first 2 chars of the coded string are that encryption salt. In DEC-Unix, SVR4 and others, that salt are the first 2 chars of the login name. Just try "man des" Data-Encryption-Standard, if I'm not wrong.

/Michael

- pwcrypt

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