how are password encryped?

Mon Nov 12 12:03:32 AEST 1990

In article <6686 at uceng.UC.EDU>, schriste at uceng.UC.EDU (Steven V. Christensen) writes:
|> A though just occurring--- since the sources for the encryption algorithms
|> are available, why hasn't anyone written a decrypter? Is the algorithm that
|> "one way"ish?

  Yes, crypt() is a one-way function.

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