Thanks a bunch for the reply. I'll take a good look at the documents. F. Senault wrote: > If you take a look at the manpage of the crypt system function (man 3 > crypt or http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=crypt&sektion=3 ), > you'll see an explanation of the hash format. > > I have no idea of the portability of that function, though. For > instance, it doesn't work on my Windows box, but it works well enough > with FreeBSD and Linux. > > Fred -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.