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authorRemi Collet <remi@remirepo.net>2024-09-13 14:54:53 +0200
committerRemi Collet <remi@php.net>2024-09-13 14:54:53 +0200
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@@ -7,6 +7,14 @@ This extension provides password hashing algorithms used by Linux distributions.
Notices: these can be fast, don't expect improved security level.
+It also provides additional functions from libxcrypt missing in core PHP:
+
+* crypt_preferred_method: get the prefix of the preferred hash method
+* crypt_gensalt: encode settings for passphrase hashing
+* crypt_checksalt: validate a crypt setting string
+
+See the Linux man pages.
+
**Computation time**
* bcrypt: 0.33"