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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