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crypt(3C)							     crypt(3C)

NAME
       crypt  - generate hashing encryption

SYNOPSIS
   Obsolescent Interfaces
DESCRIPTION
   crypt():
       is  the password encryption function.  It is based on a one way hashing
       encryption algorithm with variations intended (among other  things)  to
       frustrate use of hardware implementations of a key search.

       key  is a user's typed password.	 salt is a two-character string chosen
       from the set this string is used to perturb the	hashing	 algorithm  in
       one of 4096 different ways, after which the password is used as the key
       to encrypt repeatedly a constant string.	 The returned value points  to
       the encrypted password.	The first two characters are the salt itself.

   Obsolescent Interfaces
       generate hashing encryption.

WARNINGS
       The  return  value  for	points to data whose content is overwritten by
       each call.

       and are obsolescent interfaces  supported only for  compatibility  with
       existing DCE applications. New multithreaded applications should use

SEE ALSO
       crypt(1),      login(1),	    passwd(1),	   getpass(3C),	    passwd(4),
       thread_safety(5).

STANDARDS CONFORMANCE
								     crypt(3C)
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