Shane Ambler <pgsql@007Marketing.com> writes:
> The only crypt I know of is the crypt command (FreeBSD has it at
> /usr/bin/crypt) and is also known as enigma. This is a two way encryption
> and is fast.
> If that is what he is using then decrypting will not be part of the time
> issue and is the basis of the advice I gave.
From the man page of the crypt that I have here:
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GNU EXTENSION
The glibc2 version of this function has the following additional
features. If salt is a character string starting with the three
characters "$1$" followed by at most eight characters, and optionally
terminated by "$", then instead of using the DES machine, the glibc
crypt function uses an MD5-based algorithm, and outputs up to 34 bytes,
namely "$1$<string>$", where "<string>" stands for the up to 8
characters following "$1$" in the salt, followed by 22 bytes chosen
from the set [a-zA-Z0-9./]. The entire key is significant here
(instead of only the first 8 bytes).
Programs using this function must be linked with -lcrypt.
CONFORMING TO
SVID, X/OPEN, 4.3BSD, POSIX 1003.1-2001
================================================================================
Well... I suppose DES is not Enigma, but I may be wrong. I just quoted this
"extension" because it shows both algorithms used here.
--
Jorge Godoy <jgodoy@gmail.com>
