Info required on the MD5-Crypt algorithm

Sandip Bhattacharya <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi,gmane.user-groups.linux.india.programmers
Organization Puroga Technologies Pvt. LTd.
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi!

I have been searching for this all morning, but can anybody here point 
me to the official algorithm of the MD5 based crypt(3) function used in 
the new fangled shadow files?

This is NOT the same algorthm as MD5 it seems - a number of iterations 
of MD5 are done in this algorthm, as can be found out from a look at the 
Crypt-PasswdMD5 CPAN module 
(http://search.cpan.org/src/LUISMUNOZ/Crypt-PasswdMD5-1.2/PasswdMD5.pm).

I am also looking for a pure python module which can authenticate using 
these shadow files.

Thanks,
   Sandip

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Sandip Bhattacharya
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Puroga Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
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