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Ruby Programming/Reference/Objects/String

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String Class

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crypt(salt). Returns an encoded string using crypt(3). salt is a string with minimal length 2. If salt starts with "$1$", MD5 encryption is used, based on up to eight characters following "$1$". Otherwise, DES is used, based on the first two characters of salt.