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From: dewo1@ihuxn.UUCP (dew)
Newsgroups: btl.unix,net.unix-wizards
Subject: Use of encrypt (3C)
Message-ID: <482@ihuxn.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 10-Jan-84 10:16:44 EST
Article-I.D.: ihuxn.482
Posted: Tue Jan 10 10:16:44 1984
Date-Received: Wed, 11-Jan-84 03:49:25 EST
Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL
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Has anyone ever tried to decrypt a message using the setkey/encrypt
functions supplied in UNIX?

I am running on a 3B20S, under USG 5.0 UNIX. I need to take a message,
encrypt it, and then decrypt it.

Thinking that I might as well use the best - after all, these are the
functions that are used to encrypt passwords - I tried using these
two functions.  No luck.  I could not get the text decrypted.

I checked out how passwd(1) works, to see if it decrypted, but it does
not - just compares two encrypted strings.

Has anyone got any ideas?  I will use other functions if they are
available.

			Doug Whitten
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