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- From: Matthias Dittrich <matti>
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: String Encryption
- Date: 28 Feb 1996 06:58:19 GMT
- Organization: Hewlett-Packard Co.
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- gentrj@cii3116-01.its.rpi.edu (Ghost In The Machine) wrote:
- >Matthias Dittrich (matti) wrote:
- >: >> .....
- >: >> unreadable.
- >
- >: You also can use the crypt() function (see man 3 crypt).
- >
- >I could be wrong here (so please correct me if I am), but isn't
- >crypt() a one way encryption? I just checked man 3 crypt, and
- >found this:
- >
- >"The crypt and encrypt subroutines provide encryption of data.
- >The crypt subroutine performs a one-way encryption of a fixed"
- > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Sorry, I was wrong here. And thank you for correction. But in most cases
- user commands and function calls are doing the same :-(
-
- Good luck,
- Matthias
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