question about password hash

[strandjs at gmail.com (John Strand)]

What is really important is what came before it.

For instance.

$1$ = MD5 based encoding.

There should have been a salt too.  It would be very hard to crack  
without the salt.

Was there anything else?  What kind of system was it?

check out

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypt_(Unix)


John


On Jul 21, 2009, at 3:36 AM, Security4AT wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> As a now business unit for us, I would like to check customer  
> Notebooks and I would like to demonstrate who many Data are around  
> and how many passwords are still on the machines.
>
> Now I found in a config file a password like $SWRDspDrR\DZfw (I  
> changed two char.) and now I would like to know which password type  
> it is.
>
> I searched in the Internet for same different password hash types  
> and a handful online sites as
> http://www.insidepro.com/hashes.php?lang=eng
> http://www.hashgenerator.de/
>
> Question: Is there any way to find out which password hash type it is.
>
> Regards
> Michael
>
>
>
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