Hello Petr, On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 3:35 AM, Petr Baudis <pasky@xxxxxxx> wrote: > As Marcel Moreaux notes: > >> The Linux manpage for crypt()[1] contains the following statement as the >> last sentence of the NOTES section: >> >> In the SHA implementation the entire key is significant (instead of >> only the first 8 bytes in MD5). >> >> It should probably say "DES" where it says "MD5" (and maybe "MD5/SHA" >> where it says "SHA"), because in MD5 password hashing, the entire key is >> significant, not just the first 8 bytes. > > This patch fixes the wording. Thanks. Applied for 3.25. Cheers, Michael > Signed-off-by: Petr Baudis <pasky@xxxxxxx> > > --- > > diff --git a/man3/crypt.3 b/man3/crypt.3 > index 1139792..aeaf873 100644 > --- a/man3/crypt.3 > +++ b/man3/crypt.3 > @@ -217,10 +217,10 @@ SHA-512 | 86 characters > > The characters in "\fIsalt\fP" and "\fIencrypted\fP" are drawn from the set > [\fBa\fP\(en\fBzA\fP\(en\fBZ0\fP\(en\fB9./\fP]. > -In the SHA implementation the entire > +In the MD5 and SHA implementations the entire > .I key > is significant (instead of only the first > -8 bytes in MD5). > +8 bytes in DES). > .SH "SEE ALSO" > .BR login (1), > .BR passwd (1), > -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Author of "The Linux Programming Interface" http://blog.man7.org/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
