in reply to Re: Tales from the crypt()
in thread Tales from the crypt()

I could be mistaken, but I believe perl uses either 3DES or DES.

From 'perldoc -f crypt': Encrypts a string exactly like the crypt(3) function in the C library. So actually Perl depends on system library (aka libc on Unix systems) here. I've seen crypt to return MD5 hashes on some systems.

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