[thelist] cryptic question

[Oliver Lineham]

At 21:07 2/10/00 -0500, you wrote:

>$encryptedString = crypt("100", "this will never be guessed");
>this way, to guess the number you must know what the 'salt' is, making
>almost impossible to break it with brute force.

when i played with it a while back, PHP's crypt() only used the first 
character of the salt string (in this case 't'), giving just 256 possible 
salts.  this was PHP3 though.

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