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Originally Posted by knc1
Almost.
I would suggest: "uses an encryption method" rather than "use MD5".
A better source than Wikipedia is the man(ual) command on the system of interest.
In this case: man 3 crypt
There you find that the list of "standard" ids may be locally supplimented by locally provided authentication methods.
I realize that embedded systems often do not have the documents installed (to save space) so sometimes you have to refer to a system (using the same version of libraries) that does have the documentation installed.
I suggest that just generalizing the BIG RED NOTE is probably the best advice to give here.
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What are you talking about? I am talking about Kindle passwords. A better source than some man page that may not be current or correct is the GPL source code from amazon. In the Kindle 4.0.1 source code, the passwd.c module of busybox uses a flag called "algo", where if FALSE it uses DES, and if TRUE it uses MD5 with salt of "$1$", which agrees with wikipedia.
I grow weary of people trying to correct my information with their own inaccurate or incorrect information, without doing adequate research first. This happens on IRC too. 