note 9026 deleted from function.crypt by jimw

I use the following function to generate my own salt, adopted from the Perl Cookbook. It generates two-character salts but you can easily change it to suit your purpose. As was mentioned in the User Notes for srand(), it's bad omen to seed repeatedly, so you might want to remove the srand() line if your script is so written that you would have already seeded at some point before calling the function. function gensalt() { srand((double)microtime()*1000000); $saltseeds = array('.','/','0','1','2','3','4','5','6','7','8','9', 'a','b','c','d','e','f','g','h','i','j','k','l','m', 'n','o','p','q','r','s','t','u','v','w','x','y','z', 'A','B','C','D','E','F','G','H','I','J','K','L','M', 'N','O','P','Q','R','S','T','U','V','W','X','Y','Z'); return $saltseeds[rand(0,63)] . $saltseeds[rand(0,63)]; } $password = 'blahblah'; $salt = gensalt(); $crypted = crypt($password,$salt); echo "crypt('$password','$salt') is '$crypted'\n";