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In article <phil.714897700@adam.adelaide.edu.au> phil@adam.adelaide.edu.au (Phil Kernick) writes:
>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.
>
>
>
>Regs,
>Phil.
>
>(Followups directed to sci.crypt)
>
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	Yes, crypt is "bidirectional" and DES can be called a one way routine
so to speak.  But you can "decrypt" (if I may use that term :) ) the DES
alogorithm on an Amiga.  If anyone would like the program to do it, email me.

					Brian
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