From: Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org>
To: musl@lists.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Recommended way to probe for bcrypt support?
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2014 18:33:39 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140623223339.GP179@brightrain.aerifal.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140623215357.GB564@muslin>
On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 02:53:58PM -0700, Isaac Dunham wrote:
> I'm wondering if there's a recommended way to probe for bcrypt support;
> it would be nice to add this to toybox so mkpasswd could use blowfish on
> musl or OWL systems.
The best way to do this is with runtime detection: simply attempt to
use crypt or crypt_r with a setting string that requests bcrypt and
see if it works.
Rich
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-06-23 22:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-06-23 21:53 Isaac Dunham
2014-06-23 22:33 ` Rich Felker [this message]
2014-06-23 23:17 ` Solar Designer
2014-06-23 23:52 ` Rich Felker
2014-06-24 2:00 ` Solar Designer
2014-06-24 4:07 ` Isaac Dunham
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