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Password encryption
Post 302895693 by Corona688 on Wednesday 2nd of April 2014 12:57:00 AM
04-02-2014
They don't want people to be able to compare hashes like that. Otherwise, if an attacker got to the hashes, they could compare it to a list of known hashes -- which would speed up password bruteforcing tremendously.
In short, they mutate (salt) it a little to prevent people from doing exactly what you tried to do just now.
In short, they mutate (salt) it a little to prevent people from doing exactly what you tried to do just now.
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PWDHASH(1) General Commands Manual PWDHASH(1) NAME
pwdhash - Generator of password hashes SYNOPSIS
pwdhash [-D config-dir] [-H] [-s scheme | -c comparepwd] password DESCRIPTION
Generates password hashes which can also be used in LDIF password fields. This uses the Directory Server password generator. OPTIONS
A summary of options is included below: -H Show summary of options. -s scheme Password scheme to be used (e.g. MD5, SHA1, SHA256, SHA512, SSHA, SSHA256, SSHA512) -c comparepassword Password to be compared against -D configdir Takes the password schema directly from the ns-slapd configuration AUTHOR
dbscan was written by the 389 Project. REPORTING BUGS
Report bugs to http://bugzilla.redhat.com. COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2001 Sun Microsystems, Inc. Used by permission. Copyright (C) 2008 Red Hat, Inc. This manual page was written by Michele Baldessari <michele@pupazzo.org>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others). This is free software. You may redistribute copies of it under the terms of the Directory Server license found in the LICENSE file of this software distribution. This license is essentially the GNU General Public License version 2 with an exception for plug-in distribution. May 18, 2008 PWDHASH(1)