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bigcrypt(3C)							  bigcrypt(3C)

NAME
       bigcrypt() - generate hashing encryption on large strings

SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
       acts  like  crypt(3C), but handles much larger strings.	takes the seg‐
       ments of cleartext and encrypts them individually, at first  using  the
       salt passed in, and then using the first two characters of the previous
       encrypted segment as the salt for the next segment.  This avoids dupli‐
       cated  ciphertext  chunks when the password characters are repeated, so
       that the encryption of a segment involves the  encryption  of  all  the
       previous segments.

       Each  ciphertext	 segment  is concatenated, with the salt at the begin‐
       ning, to form the entire encrypted string.

WARNINGS
       HP-UX 11i Version 3 is the last	release	 to  support  trusted  systems
       functionality.

AUTHOR
       was developed by HP.

SEE ALSO
       crypt(3C).

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