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From: sdyer@bbnccv.UUCP (Steve Dyer)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Int. Sys V crypt() algorithm
Message-ID: <620@bbnccv.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 5-Jun-85 12:14:52 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jun  5 12:14:52 1985
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Organization: Bolt Beranek and Newman, Cambridge, MA
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AT&T produced a new encrypt() algorithm for their "international version"
of System V which provides encryption only.  Does anyone know what
algorithm is used in this new scheme, in comparison to the almost-but-not-
quite DES algorithm used in earlier versions of UNIX?  The issue here is
that many of our customer sites have deemed the older DES-based password
encryption "adequate", but are unprepared to accept the new AT&T algorithm
without some background on what it is and how it differs from the old one.

Is the new algorithm still based on DES?
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/Steve Dyer
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