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- From: op@holmes.acc.Virginia.EDU (Olaf Pors)
- Subject: Re: Why doesn't Sun provide the Crypt program in their OS?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.154525.28654@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
- Keywords: crypt
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- Organization: University of Virginia
- References: <1jjocqINNn4i@menudo.uh.edu>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 15:45:25 GMT
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- In article <1jjocqINNn4i@menudo.uh.edu> pleticha@casc.math.uh.edu (Dennis Pleticha) writes:
- >I've been trying to find out why I can't get the crypt application
- >directly from Sun for months now. All I want to do is encrypt a file
- >with a password for safe keeping and transmitting over unsecure
- >networks. The libraries are there and I suppose I could write a
- >program to do it, and even the Sun man page talks about the application
- >but where the hell is the damn thing? Sorry, but it seems like such
- >a simple thing to ask of a vendor that I've lost all my patience.
- >
- >Any and all help would be greatly appreciated.
-
- I'm in a similar situation. I looked at the SunOS Encryption
- Kit which accompanied our SunOS 4.0 release tapes, but installing
- it would not have been simple, since we are now running 4.1.1 or
- higher, and the Encryption Kit is rather invasive.
- I also didn't know whether the SunOS "crypt" at 4.1.1 still
- used old-style encryption or DES encryption. We are a
- "domestic" site, eligible for DES, but that doesn't
- convince me that Sun supplied us with the correct "crypt".
-
- I finally realized that it is silly to waste any time on
- DES, since its 56-bit keys make it susceptible to brute-force
- attacks. I am now looking at the IDEA code in PGP 2.1, to
- try to lift out the IDEA encryption code just to use at
- UVa to provide a safe encryption method for our users.
- Perhaps you would want to do the same.
-
- Olaf Pors
- University of Virginia
- op@Virginia.EDU
-