8.5 Built-in Module crypt
This module implements an interface to the crypt(3) routine,
which is a one-way hash function based upon a modified DES algorithm;
see the Unix man page for further details. Possible uses include
allowing Python scripts to accept typed passwords from the user, or
attempting to crack Unix passwords with a dictionary.
- crypt (word, salt)
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word will usually be a user's password. salt is a
2-character string which will be used to select one of 4096 variations
of DES . The characters in salt must be
either ., /, or an alphanumeric character. Returns the
hashed password as a string, which will be composed of characters from
the same alphabet as the salt.
The module and documentation were written by Steve Majewski.
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