What are the first two characters of an MD5 hashed password?

What are the first two characters of an MD5 hashed password?

What are the first two characters of an MD5 hashed password?

A.
$1

B.
$5

C.
$6

D.
2a

Explanation/Reference:
From the man pages:
$id$salt$encrypted
The following values of id are supported:
ID  | Method
———————————————————
1    | MD5
2a  | Blowfish (not in mainline glibc; added in some Linux distributions)
5    | SHA-256 (since glibc 2.7)
6    | SHA-512 (since glibc 2.7)



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