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- From: daemon9@netcom.com (Route)
- Subject: Re: Need a simple encryption mechanism
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- Date: Fri, 26 Jan 1996 16:36:54 GMT
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- Sridhar Krishnan (skrishna@cisco.com):
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- : |Can somebody point me to a simple routine that does one-way password
- : |encryption for a field that is no-longer than 8 char. long, and need to
- : |be stored in a database as a string?
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- Might I suggest the obvious...crypt(3)...?
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