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PHP -- crypt() returns only the salt for MD5

Affected packages
5.3.7	<=	php5	<	5.3.7_2

Details

VuXML ID	3f1df2f9-cd22-11e0-9bb2-00215c6a37bb
Discovery	2011-08-17
Entry	2011-08-23
Modified	2011-08-30

PHP development team reports:

If crypt() is executed with MD5 salts, the return value consists of the salt only. DES and BLOWFISH salts work as expected.

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References

URL	https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=55439

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