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> By the 1990s Unix systems were mostly using PHK's version which had a larger salt and ran MD5

That timing seems a bit optimistic to me, especially at large shops where the original crypt() implementation was necessary because you were using things like NIS, Radius, LDAP, etc. and had devices which didn't support MD-5 or better. I was still seeing that into the mid-to-late 2000s.



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