2009/1/15 tedd <tedd.sperling@xxxxxxxxx> > At 2:19 PM -0600 1/14/09, Shawn McKenzie wrote: > >> >> >> As others have said, use crypt(). >> http://php.net/manual/function.crypt.php has Example #2 Using crypt() >> with htpasswd. >> > > > Thanks, but that doesn't really solve my problem. > > You see, I know the password and I know the encoded result -- what I don't > know is what algorithm was used to generate the encoding. > > Here are all the algorithms I know of (this includes the above link you > provided). > > http://webbytedd.com/bbbb/md5/index.php > > However, none of them match what have. > > Cheers, > > tedd I think I do not really understand your problem... searching for standard crypt algorithms? google, wikipedia and such should help. Just for clarification: you know that using md5, crypt and others does not create the same hash if you use them on the same passwort?