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authorthorpej <thorpej@NetBSD.org>2000-06-16 16:27:32 +0000
committerthorpej <thorpej@NetBSD.org>2000-06-16 16:27:32 +0000
commit9323d932342fac2ebc7dc419bcfc3bfa604b9c48 (patch)
tree78fba6a088259e2707e5f88834d7cb4cbca5af22 /lib/libcrypt/crypt.3
parenta7a6978d06de8af8cb317d5267e44e4f4e942689 (diff)
Enable decryption in crypt(), from cryptosrc-intl, and lift the updated
manual page (which describes decryption) from cryptosrc-us.
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libcrypt/crypt.3')
-rw-r--r--lib/libcrypt/crypt.317
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libcrypt/crypt.3 b/lib/libcrypt/crypt.3
index a58d64b7913..acb3e073270 100644
--- a/lib/libcrypt/crypt.3
+++ b/lib/libcrypt/crypt.3
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $NetBSD: crypt.3,v 1.7 1999/07/02 15:18:37 simonb Exp $
+.\" $NetBSD: crypt.3,v 1.8 2000/06/16 16:27:32 thorpej Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1989, 1991, 1993
.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
@@ -31,9 +31,9 @@
.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
-.\" @(#)crypt.3 8.1.1.1 (Berkeley) 8/18/93
+.\" @(#)crypt.3 8.2 (Berkeley) 12/11/93
.\"
-.Dd August 18, 1993
+.Dd December 11, 1993
.Dt CRYPT 3
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ underscore (``_'') followed by 4 bytes of iteration count and 4 bytes
of salt.
Both the iteration
.Fa count
-and the
+and the
.Fa salt
are encoded with 6 bits per character, least significant bits first.
The values 0 to 63 are encoded by the characters ``./0-9A-Za-z'',
@@ -167,8 +167,9 @@ If the value of
is 0,
the argument
.Fa block
-is encrypted, otherwise it fails.
-The encryption is returned in the original
+is encrypted, otherwise it
+is decrypted.
+The encryption or decryption is returned in the original
array
.Fa block
after using the
@@ -194,7 +195,9 @@ significant bit in each character is ignored and the next 7 bits of each
character are concatenated to yield a 56-bit key.
The function
.Fn des_cipher
-encrypts the 64-bits stored in the 8 characters at
+encrypts (or decrypts if
+.Fa count
+is negative) the 64-bits stored in the 8 characters at
.Fa in
using
.Xr abs 3