A MD5Crypt implementation

[Sandip Bhattacharya]

Sandip Bhattacharya wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I was looking around for a crypt(3) module which can interpret the MD5 
> based hashes that the shadow files in Linux use nowadays.
> 
> Since I couldnt find any, I went ahead and coded my own - borrowing the 
> logic from the appropriate Glibc file.
> 
> I really hope that I havent duplicated effort already done in an 
> existing module (which I havent been able to spot till now). If I have, 
> do break the news to me as gently as you could ;), 'coz I spent a good 
> number of hours on this.
> 
> I am a new python user. Please take a look at 
> http://www.puroga.com/py/CryptMD5.py and tell me how I could have coded 
> it better.
> 

eesh. I should have googled some more. I found atleast two 
implementations for what I had already done. :(

And written much better. ;)


http://www.chrisarndt.de/en/software/python/authlib.py.html
http://www.sabren.net/code/python/crypt/md5crypt.py

- Sandip

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