Int. Sys V crypt() algorithm

[Henry Spencer]

> My System V manual says:
> "Crypt implements a one-rotor machine designed along the lines of the
> German Enigma, but with a 256-element rotor."
> 
> This says to me that the old Crypt algorithm was not based on DES.

You are reading crypt(1).  He is talking about crypt(3).  Different code,
different uses, different encryption algorithms.
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				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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