Authen::Simple::Password - Simple password checking

    if ( Authen::Simple::Password->check( $password, $encrypted ) ) {
        # OK
    }

Provides a simple way to verify passwords.

* check( $password, $encrypted )

Returns true on success and false on failure.

* Plain

Plaintext

* Crypt

crypt(3)

* Crypt Modular

* $1$

MD5-based password algorithm

* $apr$

MD5-based password algorithm, Apache variant

* LDAP

* {CLEARTEXT}

Plaintext.

* {CRYPT}

Uses crypt(3)

* {MD5}

MD5 algorithm

* {SMD5}

Seeded MD5 algorithm

* {SHA}

SHA-1 algorithm

* {SSHA}

Seeded SHA-1 algorithm

* MD5 algorithm

Encoded as binary, Base64 or hexadecimal.

* SHA-1 algorithm

Encoded as binary, Base64 or hexadecimal.

* SHA-2 256 algorithm

Encoded as binary, Base64 or hexadecimal.

Authen::Simple

crypt(3).

Christian Hansen ch@ngmedia.com

This program is free software, you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.