Re: Need a simple encryption mechanism

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From: Route
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 1996 16:36

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Sridhar Krishnan (skrishna@cisco.com):

: |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?

	Might I suggest the obvious...crypt(3)...?
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