UNIX-like crypt function

Thomas Truscott trt at rti.UUCP
Thu Aug 24 12:21:10 AEST 1989


In article <605 at targon.UUCP>, ruud at targon.UUCP (Ruud Harmsen) writes:
> In article <164 at spam.ua.oz> wvenable at spam.oz.au (Bill Venables) writes:
> crypt(3) is available on all UNIXes (though not as source), crypt(1) is not.

... and this is particularly amusing since crypt(3) uses a powerful encryption
method (DES) whereas crypt(1) uses a much simpler and weaker method.

But "they" have spoken.  crypt(1) must not escape from the USA.
Of course people within the USA are permitted to use it.
People outside the USA will have to be content with reading
the 1984 AT&T Bell Laboratories Technical Journal which explains
how to break the encryption!
	Tom Truscott



More information about the Comp.lang.c mailing list