Re: what password encryption method is this?

In article <4314DFA8.BB73B5DB@aegina.net>,
Nikos Giannoulis <ngiann@aegina.net> wrote:
>I have no idea of encryption methods, and I would like to know if
>someone can guess what is the one used here:
>
>root:$1$$34NPeumc9sBBCAw.oUaM80
>or
>root:$1$$D2fn4UZSslIGSoEkozGr70
>
>where root: is the user name and rest is password.
>
>These are taken from an embeded device linux passwd file.
>
>To create a password the system uses the passwd command which in the
>manual says that can use des, md5, sha1 algorithms.

I believe these are Base-64 encoded output from
MD5. The $1$$ means something special, but I've
forgotten exactly what; in essence, though, it
says to use the new password scheme not the
original Unix one. The other 22 characters
represent 6 bits per character, and expand to 132
bits, of which only the first 128 are used.

Have fun cracking...

Greg.

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