4.3BSD - /usr/man/cat3/encrypt.0

CRYPT(3)                                                              CRYPT(3)


NAME
       crypt, setkey, encrypt - DES encryption

SYNOPSIS
       char *crypt(key, salt)
       char *key, *salt;

       setkey(key)
       char *key;

       encrypt(block, edflag)
       char *block;

DESCRIPTION
       Crypt  is the password encryption routine.  It is based on the NBS Data
       Encryption Standard, with variations intended (among other  things)  to
       frustrate use of hardware implementations of the DES for key search.

       The  first  argument to crypt is normally a user’s typed password.  The
       second is a 2-character string chosen from the set [a-zA-Z0-9./].   The
       salt string is used to perturb the DES algorithm in one of 4096 differ‐
       ent ways, after which the password  is  used  as  the  key  to  encrypt
       repeatedly  a  constant  string.   The  returned  value  points  to the
       encrypted password, in the same alphabet as the salt.   The  first  two
       characters are the salt itself.

       The  other  entries provide (rather primitive) access to the actual DES
       algorithm.  The argument of setkey is a character array  of  length  64
       containing  only  the characters with numerical value 0 and 1.  If this
       string is divided into groups of 8, the low-order bit in each group  is
       ignored, leading to a 56-bit key which is set into the machine.

       The  argument  to  the  encrypt  entry is likewise a character array of
       length 64 containing 0’s and 1’s.  The argument array  is  modified  in
       place  to  a  similar array representing the bits of the argument after
       having been subjected to the DES algorithm using the key set by setkey.
       If  edflag  is  0,  the  argument  is  encrypted;  if  non-zero,  it is
       decrypted.

SEE ALSO
       passwd(1), passwd(5), login(1), getpass(3)

BUGS
       The return value points to static data whose content is overwritten  by
       each call.


7th Edition                      May 15, 1985                         CRYPT(3)