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- From: roberson@zeno.ibd.nrc.ca (Walter Roberson)
- Newsgroups: comp.security.misc,comp.lang.pascal,comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: Need a simple encryption mechanism
- Date: 27 Jan 1996 00:44:14 GMT
- Organization: National Research Council of Canada
- Message-ID: <4ebsgu$p5n@canopus.cc.umanitoba.ca>
- References: <Pine.HPP.3.91.960125151147.20441I-100000@lint.cisco.com>
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- In article <Pine.HPP.3.91.960125151147.20441I-100000@lint.cisco.com>,
- Sridhar Krishnan <skrishna@cisco.com> wrote:
-
- :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?
-
- I don't know if you'd consider it simple enough, but a high-speed
- version of the unix password encryptor is at
- ftp://unix.hensa.ac.uk/pub/uunet/usenet/comp.sources.misc/volume28/ufc-crypt/*
- and other equivilent locations.
-
- Walter Roberson roberson@ibd.nrc.ca
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