Datatypes

yescrypt password hash

ID yescrypt_hash

DatatypeNot PIIidentifierDraft

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Password hash of yescrypt, the scrypt-based scheme by Openwall that is the default in /etc/shadow on recent releases of Debian, Ubuntu and Fedora, in Modular Crypt Format: $y$, the encoded parameters (j9T for the common defaults), $, the salt, $ and 43 characters of crypt Base64.

Categories
Secrets and credentials (passwords, keys, tokens), Cryptographic identifiers
Countries
Global (not tied to a country)
Languages
Common to most languages
Quality
68/100 · missing: second example, mapping (Wikidata, Schema.org, ...), translation, detector coverage
Metacrafter rules
no detection rule yet
Supported by tools
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Regular expression

^\$y\$[./A-Za-z0-9]+\$[./A-Za-z0-9]{0,86}\$[./A-Za-z0-9]{43}$

Python re syntax.

Examples

ValueDescription
$y$j9T$ZVLMh/5PZBLMgF5$/1rXWcrKaeN6YWKzR1LbhwrY1sBgM9R1a4daQyX/.z/Hash of the word "example" with the salt examplesalt and the default parameters
$6$saltstring$svn8UoSVapNtMuq1ukKS4tPQd8iKwSMHWjl/O817G3uBnIFNjnQJuesI68u4OTLiBFdcbYEdFCoEOfaS35inz1 invalidSHA-512-crypt hash

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