Decrypting Files Encrypted on Another Machine

Dipto Chakravarty dipto at umbc3.UMBC.EDU
Fri Apr 14 09:12:08 AEST 1989


>In article <198 at rancho.uucp= rock at rancho.uucp (Rock Kent) writes:
>=I have been unsuccessful in taking files which have been encrypted on
>=an NCR Tower using crypt(1) and decrypting them on a microport Sys
>=V/386 system. 
>

Two things come into my mind immediately. First issue is about the 
nature in which integers are handled in crypt.c ; it could be a 
problem. Second point is about the 'dd' utility with its conv=swab 
i.e. swap bytes option. 

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