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From: heilpern@ibd.BRL.MIL (Mark A. Heilpern )
Newsgroups: comp.sources.wanted
Subject: Re: fast "crypt" routine
Keywords: for Unix passwd encryption
Message-ID: <258@ibd.BRL.MIL>
Date: 4 May 89 11:50:17 GMT
References: <39439@bbn.COM>
Reply-To: heilpern@brl.arpa (Mark A. Heilpern (IBD) <heilpern>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <39439@bbn.COM> franco@bbn.com (Frank A. Lonigro) writes:
>Does anyone have a lightning fast "crypt" routine or know where I can get
>one to do password encryption on Unix?????  I'm writing a utility to find
>and weed out easy to guess users passwords to make our systems more secure.


Geez, If I wanted to write this program, I'd rather use a slow encryption
method, like the included "crypt(key,salt)" C routine from UNIX. I guess I'd
just rather let this program run all night instead of create a potential
security hole, especially one to be passwd across the net.

	--M.