linux password encryption

[Guest_imported]

What is the exact and complete algorithm used by linux to encrypt it's user's password that are stored in /etc/shadow file.

Encrypted password is of length 34 bytes and it takes a salt of 8 chars.

Is there any java/ C++ implementation of such an algorithm.

 

[ifincham]

Hi,

Why not rtfs (read the fine source) ? For example --> ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/7.2/en/os/i386/SRPMS/pwdb-0.61.1-3.src.rpm .

(Theres actually an implementation of the md5 algorithm in there if you look hard enough.)

Regards