Re: Need a simple encryption mechanism

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From: Walter Roberson
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 1996 00:44

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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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Subject: Re: Need a simple encryption mechanism
Date: 27 Jan 1996 00:44:14 GMT
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