i'm using perl's 'crypt' function.

does it have a limit on the size of the string being passed in? 

#!/usr/bin/perl

# must have's!
use strict;
use warnings;
use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser);
use DBI;
use URI::Escape;

use lib "/var/www/html/Pm";

my $pw = "Aardvark"; # 8 characters
my $salt = "ab";

my $pwCrypted = crypt($pw, $salt);

print "content-type: text/plain\n\n";

if (crypt("Aardvarks", $salt) eq $pwCrypted) { print "yup" } else { pr
+int "nope"; }

exit 1;

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the above prints "yup", not "nope" as you might expect....seems crypt does have a limit, although the doc i reference doesn't state the existence of such a limit. is there an equivalent which operates exactly the same?

In reply to crypt function has string length limit? by jamroll

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