Re: Why doesn't Sun provide the Crypt program in their OS?

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From: Vesselin Bontchev
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 16:25

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tschach@math.fu-berlin.de (Carsten Tschach) writes:

> Try to get 'enigma' from one of the ftp-servers. It's crypt compatible.

No, it is not. The most that can be said is that crypt(1) uses an
"Enigma-like" cypher. Actually, it implements a one-rotor, 256-letter
no-reflector version of Enigma. The Unix crypt(1) certainly CANNOT be
used to read and write messages, understandable by the -real- Enigma.
(The real Enigma had three or four 26-letter rotors and a reflector.)
BTW, the program "enigma.c" than can be found with archie does not
create Enigma-compatible messages either. It is an "improved" version
of the Enigma cypher. I doubt that the improvements have made it more
secure, but they for sure have made it incompatible...

Regards,
Vesselin

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Subject: Re: Why doesn't Sun provide the Crypt program in their OS?
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