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trevhas
Asked: 2011-05-13 10:49:47 +0800 CST

What kind of algorithm does .htpasswd uses?

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I am trying to generate this kind of hashes programmatically:

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But I can't identify what kind of hash it is. The hash comes from a .htpasswd file.

All the online htpasswd generators I tried generates different type of hashes.

hash encryption cryptography htpasswd .htpasswd

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  1. Best Answer

    It's CRYPT encryption - an old default. You should probably use MD5 or SHA instead - see man htpasswd for more information.

    How are you trying to generate your passwords? You could run htpasswd -n -b username password, but most languages probably have a library function for that already.

    Perl example:

    perl -e 'print crypt("passwordgoeshere","salt") . "\n"'

    The second parameter is the salt. As Gerard points out it's better to use a random string as salt.

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