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| -rw-r--r-- | ChangeLog | 6 | ||||
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@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@ +Mon Feb 27 17:00:15 2012 Akinori MUSHA <knu@iDaemons.org> + + * string.c (rb_str_crypt): Update rdoc and state that this + function is system dependent. Reviewed by nobu, thanks to + @takai. + Mon Feb 27 17:03:20 2012 Nobuyoshi Nakada <nobu@ruby-lang.org> * ext/bigdecimal/bigdecimal.c (GetVpValueWithPrec): since methods @@ -6771,12 +6771,19 @@ rb_str_oct(VALUE str) /* * call-seq: - * str.crypt(other_str) -> new_str - * - * Applies a one-way cryptographic hash to <i>str</i> by invoking the standard - * library function <code>crypt</code>. The argument is the salt string, which - * should be two characters long, each character drawn from - * <code>[a-zA-Z0-9./]</code>. + * str.crypt(salt_str) -> new_str + * + * Applies a one-way cryptographic hash to <i>str</i> by invoking the + * standard library function <code>crypt(3)</code> with the given + * salt string. While the format and the result are system and + * implementation dependent, using a salt matching the regular + * expression <code>^[a-zA-Z0-9./]{2}</code> should be safe and valid + * on any platform, in which only the first two characters are + * significant. + * + * This method is for use in system specific scripts, so if you want + * a cross-platform hash function consider using Digest or OpenSSL + * instead. */ static VALUE |