[Canberra-pm] crypt behaviour

[Alex Satrapa]

According to http://www.perlmonks.com/?node_id=62392 there is a means to get crypt to use MD5 by providing an 8-byte salt preceded by $1$.

This doesn't work on Mac OS X or, as indicated on that page, under Active Perl for Windows.

Does anyone know where this MD5 magic behavior of crypt is documented?

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