| Extracted from Pike v7.8 release 866 at 2016-04-05.

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Nettle.HashInfo

# Method Nettle.HashInfo()->crypt_hash()

Method crypt_hash

  `string crypt_hash(string password, string salt, int rounds)`

Description

  Password hashing function in crypt_md5() -style.

  Implements the algorithm described in http://www.akkadia.org/drepper/SHA-crypt.txt.

  This is the algorithm used by `crypt(2)` in methods `$5$` (SHA256) and `$6$` (SHA512).

See also

  crypt_md5()