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There is no encryption algorithm involved. The use of “encryption” is a misnomer, due to the historical password hashing algorithm being based on DES, which is primarily used for encryption and known as such. id is in fact the hashing method, and all documentation should properly use the word “hash” throughout instead of “encrypt”.
For id = 1, the algorithm ...
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I think they really mean hashing method for the hash in use. The format is:
"$id$salt$hashed", where "$id" is the algorithm used (On GNU/Linux, "$1$" stands for MD5, "$2a$" is Blowfish, "$5$" is SHA-256 and "$6$" is SHA-512 ...)
the source of which is available on wikipedia.
I've just looked at the manual and it does indeed say "encryption method". ...
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