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From: robert@jimi.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: Crypt - a suggestion
Message-ID: <489@jimi.cs.unlv.edu>
Date: Tue, 3-Mar-87 20:28:52 EST
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Posted: Tue Mar  3 20:28:52 1987
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In article <395@cognos.UUCP> garyp@smokey.UUCP (Gary Puckering) writes:
>I see Crypt as a tool similar to compress in it's usage.  Therefore, I
>suggest that crypt should work like compress.  That is, it's syntax
>should be something like this:
>
>  crypt [ -k key ] file ...
>

I would be a little nervous about putting the key on the command line,
I beleive it copies over this info when it starts up, but isn't there
still a small window in which one could get the key with a ps e or w?

Anyway, you shouldn't use crypt.  Even I can break it with Robert Baldwin's
cbw program.  There was a DES program posted to net.sources a while back.
Its not agreed that des is secure either, but at least its better than
crypt.

				--robert