perl pasword encryption, work with PHP

[m4trix]

I have a php script that uses the PHP md5() function which "Returns an encrypted hash of it's parameter, using the RSA algorythm."

What I'm wondering is, is there any perl modules or anything that will allow me to verify passwords using this encryption system? Just as a test, I tried with perl's crypt() function, but they are obviously different as didn't work.

Any suggestions? If it can't be done directly, would I be able to write a short PHP script that the perl script could use to validate the password? thanks

 

[justice41]

The [tt]md5_hex()[/tt] function provided by the Digest::MD5 module will produce the same output as the php [tt]md5()[/tt] function.

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