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Date:      Mon, 19 Jun 1995 12:06:58 -0400
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu>
To:        Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>
Cc:        Garrett Wollman <wollman@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu>, current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Crypto code - an architectural proposal. 
Message-ID:  <9506191606.AA08823@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199506191556.RAA29080@grumble.grondar.za>
References:  <199506191556.RAA29080@grumble.grondar.za>

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<<On Mon, 19 Jun 1995 17:56:42 +0200, Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za> 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

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