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From: rcj@moss.ATT.COM
Newsgroups: comp.bugs.sys5
Subject: Re: Subject: bug in and fix to crypt(3C)
Message-ID: <24315@clyde.ATT.COM>
Date: 3 Apr 88 01:19:02 GMT
References: <64@kenobi.UUCP>
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Reply-To: rcj@moss.UUCP (Curtis Jackson)
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Whippany NJ
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In article <64@kenobi.UUCP> ford@kenobi.UUCP (Mike Ditto) writes:
}There is a bug in the crypt(3C) library function in most (if not all)
}System V libraries which completely prevents proper encryption/
}decryption of data using the DES algorithm.  The routines affected are
}setkey() and encrypt(), the crypt() function works as it is.

I ran the test on our Vax running AT&T SVR2 and got the correct
result, so it isn't in all SV libraries.

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