5 Dec
2022
5 Dec
'22
10:58 a.m.
On Mon, Dec 05, 2022 at 08:02:22 +0100, Ulrich Windl wrote:
I had thought that the encoded SSHA passwords all have the same length. Could it depend on the program being used to change the password, thus varying the length of salt?
Yes, the salt can be of arbitrary length.
How could I decode that?
The first 160 bits (after base64 decoding) are the SHA1 hash, the remaining part is the salt.
Geert