NAME
crypt - crypt a password

SYNTAX
string crypt(string password);
or
int crypt(string typed_password, string crypted_password);

DESCRIPTION
This function crypts and verifies a short string. (normally only the first 8 characters are significant) The first syntax crypts the string password into something that is hopefully hard to decrypt, and the second function crypts the first string and verifies that the crypted result matches the second argument and returns 1 if they matched, 0 otherwise.

EXAMPLES
To crypt a password use:
crypted_password = crypt(typed_password);
To see if the same password was used again use:
matched = crypt(typed_password, crypted_password);


KEYWORDS
string