md5crypt(n)

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>