Re: [VANILLA-LIST:2498] crypt needed for res-rsa

[kmorgan@wusnext.Eng.Sun.COM (Keir Morgan)]

Carlos spate:
 
> Quoting Jeffrey Nowakowski <jeffno@ccs.neu.edu>:
> } 
> } I'm confused.  What crypt is being talked about here, the command line
> } crypt or the library crypt()?
> 
> Command line crypt to decrypt the tar.gz.crypt file.
> 
> } If it's the command line crypt, wouldn't it be trivial to make a
> } command line version using the library call?
> 
> TAG! You're it.
 
  Aren't crypt (the program) and crypt() were two very different
things? My understanding was that the crypt command uses a simple
enigma based rotor engine to encrypt/decrypt data whereas crypt()
is a salt perturbed implementation of DES.
 
  I believe that the crypt (program) is about as crackable
as 'zip -e'.
 
Regards,
 
Keir
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