Posted by Janwillem Borleffs on 07/22/05 23:48

steve wrote:
> I have a set of passwords encrypted using perl's crypt, from a perl
> forum being migrated to php.
>
> I like to bring them into php, and use them without changing them.
> How do I emulate perl's crypt function.
>
> I found a pear module here:
> http://pear.php.net/package/Crypt_CBC/docs/0.3/Crypt/Crypt_CBC.html
> but it seems to only take one argument, whereas perl's crypt should
> take two args (?).
>

Using Perl:

my $string = 'the string';
my $salt = 'secret';

print crypt $string, $salt; # Prints sewZw1OY/.llM

Using http://www.php.net/crypt:

$string = 'the string';
$salt = 'secret';

print crypt($string, $salt); # Prints sewZw1OY/.llM


JW

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