Xref: news2.mv.net comp.os.msdos.djgpp:8268 From: lehmann AT mathematik DOT th-darmstadt DOT de (Alexander Lehmann) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: Dos Port of Unix's Crypt? Anyone? Date: 4 Sep 1996 19:03:44 GMT Organization: Technische Hochschule Darmstadt Lines: 29 Message-ID: <50kjqg$shh@rs18.hrz.th-darmstadt.de> References: <50icuu$7i6 AT news DOT wco DOT com> NNTP-Posting-Host: fb0404.mathematik.th-darmstadt.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Joseph Mazeau wrote: : Hello all, another quick question. :) : Does anyone know where I can find a dos port of unix's crypt : command? I will write my own if necessary, but, I feel like I would be : reinventing the wheel. Thanks. AFAIK, the source code for unix crypt is not available, it is included in any unix version that is licensed from SysV in some way, but not in Linux, FreeBSD etc. The man-page is not very informative on what the program acutally does, it is apparently something with rotating wheels like the WW2 Enigma. It may be possible to reverse engeneer the program, but there may be major problems with copyright then. Also you may get problems with the ITAR madness. OK, having said all that, if you already have a source code, I would be very interested in it. (of course, I can't get it legally due to ITAR again). bye, Alexander -- Alexander Lehmann, | "On the Internet, alex AT hal DOT rhein-main DOT de (plain, MIME, NeXT) | nobody knows lehmann AT mathematik DOT th-darmstadt DOT de (plain) | you're a dog."