Historic Password Hashes

This is a collection of historic password hashing algorithms. Please do not use most of them today! Send pull request if you have more.

Unix

• Unix V6 (1975)
• Unix V7 DES-crypt (1979)
• Net/2 DES-crypt (1991)
• Minix 1.5 (1991)
• Minix 2.0 (1996)
• FreeBSD 1.1.5 Nate's password scrambler (1994)
• FreeBSD 2.0 phk's md5-crypt (1994)
• OpenBSD 2.1 bcrypt (1997)
• glibc SHA crypt (2007)
• Solaris 9 MU2 Sun MD5 (2002)

Windows

• Windows LM-Hash (1991)
• (TODO) Windows NT-Hash (original: ?, compatible open source) (1993)

Other

• Oberon (1990)
• VxWorks 6.9 and earlier (1990)

See Also

• Password Security: A Case History. (PDF) Robert Morris. Ken Thompson. Bell Laboratories. Murray Hill, New Jersey 07974.
• Boris Hagelin's M-209 cipher machine (as in Unix V6 crypt)
• LM hash and NTLM on Wikipedia.
• Md5crypt Password scrambler is no longer considered safe by author by Poul-Henning Kamp.
• Minix 1.5 password insecurity from comp.os.minix. 1992-11-30.
• Unix crypt with SHA-256/512. Ulrich Drepper. 2007-09-19.
• OpenSolaris, Pluggable Crypt, and the SunMD5 Password Hash Algorithm. Alec Muffett. 2005-12-05.
• Shiny Old VxWorks Vulnerabilities. 2010-08-02.
• Openwall