From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jun 19 09:07:23 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id JAA25942 for current-outgoing; Mon, 19 Jun 1995 09:07:23 -0700 Received: from halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu (halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu [18.26.0.159]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id JAA25936 for ; Mon, 19 Jun 1995 09:07:21 -0700 Received: by halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu; (5.65/1.1.3.6) id AA08823; Mon, 19 Jun 1995 12:06:58 -0400 Date: Mon, 19 Jun 1995 12:06:58 -0400 From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <9506191606.AA08823@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> To: Mark Murray Cc: Garrett Wollman , current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Crypto code - an architectural proposal. In-Reply-To: <199506191556.RAA29080@grumble.grondar.za> References: <199506191556.RAA29080@grumble.grondar.za> Sender: current-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk < said: > I am actually having quite a hard time working out what the difference > is between libdescrypt and libcipher. Could you enlighten me please? > (I was of a mind to trash libcipher, as it seems superfluous.) Easy. libdescrypt is the UNIX one-way password hash function, implemented in a way that I believe is likely to be exportable. libcipher is all the other entry points which were traditionally associated with the UNIX `crypt' function, and which are not exportable because they can be used to perform encryption and decryption; this includes things like `setkey' and `encrypt'. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | Shashish is simple, it's discreet, it's brief. ... wollman@lcs.mit.edu | Shashish is the bonding of hearts in spite of distance. Opinions not those of| It is a bond more powerful than absence. We like people MIT, LCS, ANA, or NSA| who like Shashish. - Claude McKenzie + Florent Vollant