in reply to Re: MD5?
in thread How to use MD5?

do i need to define anything else, as if i just use the two lines 


my $password = 'hello';
my $encrpass = md5($password);

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it doesn't work? ideas?

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Re: Re: Re: MD5?
by mdillon (Priest) on Sep 17, 2002 at 20:07 UTC
    That doesn't do what you want. Have a look at the reply from fokat below; it has the/a correct answer. Also, if your libc's crypt supports MD5 passwords natively, all you have to do is generate an appropriate salt; see this node for more info.
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Re: Re: Re: MD5?
by hossman (Prior) on Sep 17, 2002 at 19:29 UTC
    that's why fglock had that line at the top of his post... 

    use Digest::MD5 qw(md5 md5_hex md5_base64);

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