SYNOPSIS

if ( Authen::Simple::Password->check( $password, $encrypted ) ) {
# OK
}

DESCRIPTION

Provides a simple way to verify passwords.

METHODS

• check( $password, $encrypted )

  Returns true on success and false on failure.

SUPPORTED PASSWORD FORMATS

• Plain

  Plaintext

• Crypt

  crypt(3)

• Crypt Modular

  $1$

  MD5-based password algorithm

  $apr$

  MD5-based password algorithm, Apache variant

• LDAP

  {CLEARTEXT}

  Plaintext.

  {CRYPT}

  Uses crypt(3)

  {MD5}

  MD5 algorithm

  {SMD5}

  Seeded MD5 algorithm

  {SHA}

  SHA-1 algorithm

  {SSHA}

  Seeded SHA-1 algorithm

• MD5 algorithm

  Encoded as binary, Base64 or hexadecimal.

• SHA-1 algorithm

  Encoded as binary, Base64 or hexadecimal.

• SHA-2 256 algorithm

  Encoded as binary, Base64 or hexadecimal.

AUTHOR

Christian Hansen "[email protected]"

COPYRIGHT

This program is free software, you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.