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PHP now contains its own implementation for the MD5 crypt, Standard DES, Extended DES and the Blowfish algorithms and will use that if the system lacks of support for one or more of the algorithms. <br />
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You can get more info at: <a href="http://php.net/crypt" rel="ugc">http://php.net/crypt</a><br />

<pre><code id="code-309064">$cryptpassword = crypt($password);
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PHP now contains its own implementation for the MD5 crypt, Standard DES, Extended DES and the Blowfish algorithms and will use that if the system lacks of support for one or more of the algorithms.

You can get more info at: http://php.net/crypt [http://php.net/crypt]


$cryptpassword = crypt($password);


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What is the equivalent PHP code for the following Perl code? <br />
(Note there is no salt arg, there is just one argument for a plaintext $password.)<br />
I need to be able to create the identical encrypted password as in Perl.<br />

<pre><code id="code-308992">my $cryptpassword = bz_crypt($password);
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What is the equivalent PHP code for the following Perl code? 
(Note there is no salt arg, there is just one argument for a plaintext $password.)
I need to be able to create the identical encrypted password as in Perl.

How to do encryption in PHP equal to Perl's bz_crypt() function?

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