Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2004 11:38:28 +0200 From: Geert Hendrickx <geert.hendrickx@ua.ac.be> To: Frank Altpeter <frank@altpeter.de>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Converting crypted passwords Message-ID: <20040702093828.GA13208@lori.mine.nu> In-Reply-To: <20040702083214.GA26226@murphy.planlos.de> References: <20040702083214.GA26226@murphy.planlos.de>
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The whole point of md5 digests is that you can't recover the password
from it, you can only match it against the md5-sum of a given password.
So I guess you cannot convert it to other formats without knowing the
password itself.
GH
On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 10:32:14AM +0200, Frank Altpeter wrote:
>
> Hi there,
>
> I'm wrestling with a converting problem for a couple of days now,
> but i didn't find a solution yet. Perhaps one of the crypting gurus
> here can give me a hint...
>
>
> Given is a system with md5 style passwords like that:
>
> $1$d61CkkOZ$BE/TofmL5h9gtfxKI6Vcy1
>
> (This can be generated by "openssl passwd -1 -salt d61CkkOZ test")
>
> Without knowing the password, i need to convert it to base64 encoded
> binary md5 digest style for using with ProFTP+mod_sql:
>
> {md5}CY9rzUYh03PK3k6DJie09g==
>
> (This can be generated by "printf '{md5}' ; printf 'test' | openssl dgst -binary -md5 | openssl enc -base64").
>
>
> The problem i have to solve is, how to convert the first encryption
> type into the second encryption type without having the plaintext
> password in between.
>
>
> With kind regards,
>
> Frank Altpeter
>
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