Make desription of MD5 output string less ambiguous.

diff --git a/man3/crypt.3 b/man3/crypt.3
index 821ab635c8048f46ad8694d6b8b4e9131f0c7212..db044fe11f6a29b26a1624e66dc7b23b89f82cc9 100644 (file)
--- a/man3/crypt.3
+++ b/man3/crypt.3
@@ -134,9 +134,10 @@ is a character string starting with the three characters "$1$"
 followed by at most eight characters, and optionally terminated by "$",
 then instead of using the DES machine, the glibc crypt function
 uses an MD5-based algorithm, and outputs up to 34 bytes,
-namely "$1$<string>$", where "<string>" stands for the up to 8
-characters following "$1$" in the salt, followed by 22 bytes chosen
-from the set [\fBa\fP\(en\fBzA\fP\(en\fBZ0\fP\(en\fB9./\fP].
+namely "$1$<salt><encoded>$", where
+"<salt>" stands for the up to 8 characters following "$1$" in the salt,
+and "<encoded>" is 22 bytes chosen from the set 
+[\fBa\fP\(en\fBzA\fP\(en\fBZ0\fP\(en\fB9./\fP].
 The entire key is significant here (instead of only the first
 8 bytes).
 .LP