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From:
Casey West
Date:
May 12, 2003 08:19
Subject:
Re: [DOC PATCH] [perl #1165] crypt accepts any character as salt
Message ID:
20030512152353.GA72887@geeknest.com
It was Monday, May 12, 2003 when david nicol took the soap box, saying:
: 
: The comment belongs within the parentheses.

Not really, the parens only enclose the example code used to create a
random salt with the proposed characters.  The  recommended characters
are details before the begining of the parens.

: -+'/', 0..9, 'A'..'Z', 'a'..'z')[rand 64, rand 64]>).  This set of
: ++'/', 0..9, 'A'..'Z', 'a'..'z')[rand 64, rand 64]>.  This set of
:  +characters is just a recommendation.  The characters allowed in
:  +the salt depend solely on your systems crypt library, Perl can't
: -+restrict what salts C<crypt()> accepts.
: ++restrict what salts C<crypt()> accepts.)

  Casey West

-- 
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