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- From: phil@adam.adelaide.edu.au (Phil Kernick)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications,comp.sys.amiga.misc,sci.crypt
- Subject: Re: Unix compatible crypt utility needed
- Keywords: encryption
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- Date: 27 Aug 92 06:41:40 GMT
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- exukev@exu.ericsson.se (Kevin Autrey) writes:
-
- >I've got some files I've encrypted on a Unix workstation that I want
- >to decrypt on my Amiga. They were encrypted using "crypt" on the Sun
- >(which, I believe, uses the DES encryption scheme). Does any Amiga
- >utility decrypt data encrypted with Unix's "crypt"?
-
- I think that you may not quite understand how crypt works.
-
- If they have been encrypted by DES then this is a one way algorithm, and
- hence you can't get the text back.
-
- All you could do is encrypt another section of text and compare the crypted
- version.
-
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- Regs,
- Phil.
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