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From: mck@hpdstma.HP.COM (Doug Mckenzie)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Help: Crypt algorithm
Message-ID: <930004@hpdstma.HP.COM>
Date: 3 Nov 88 19:44:42 GMT
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Organization: Hewlett-Packard TCG Tech marketing, Sunnyvale, CA
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>Could somebody please point to me the algorithm that crypt uses
>to perform password encryption given a key and two-character salt?

Scientific American has a good two-part article (in Computer Recreations
I think) on enigma and DES.  First part: 9/88, second: 10/88.

Doug McKenzie
Hewlett-Packard 
TCG Support