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From: wescott@ncrcae.Columbia.NCR.COM (Mike Wescott)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.microport,comp.unix.i386,sci.crypt
Subject: Re: Decrypting Files Encrypted on Another Machine
Keywords: crypt portable
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Date: 7 Apr 89 18:03:34 GMT
References: <198@rancho.uucp>
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In article <198@rancho.uucp> rock@rancho.uucp (Rock Kent) writes:
[ about problems with NCR Tower's crypt and Microport's crypt ]
>   - something's getting munged up in the transfer . . .

possible - check the byte order on each machine or the encrypted file

>   - I've some critical parameter erroneously set . . . possible, since
>     I'm unaware of any parameters.

I don't know of any either.

>   - The system V release 3 crypt is different from the release 2 crypt.

Nope.

>   - Microport's crypt is nonstandard.

Possible.  I don't have Microport to test against but I have checked
some small files on Towers and on 4.3 Vax with no problems.