:developerWorks: Secure Java Apps on Linux Using MD5 Crypt
developerWorks: Secure Java Apps on Linux Using MD5 Crypt Jan 16, 2006, 05 :00 UTC (3 Talkback[s]) (4764 reads) (Other stories by Vladimir Silva)
"If you are a security developer and need to interface a Java application with the local operating system user registry, what do you do? This article gives you the answer: UNIX/Linux PAM (Pluggable Authentication Module)-compatible systems that use authentication based on the GNU MD5 extensions to the crypt() system call. I'll describe these extensions and show you a Java implementation of MD5 crypt (using FreeBSD as my UNIX).
"MD5 (message-digest algorithm 5; RFC 1321) is a widely used cryptographic hash function with a 128-bit hash value..."
