From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jun 19 11:49:05 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id LAA03970 for current-outgoing; Mon, 19 Jun 1995 11:49:05 -0700 Received: from grunt.grondar.za (grunt.grondar.za [196.7.18.129]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id LAA03962 for ; Mon, 19 Jun 1995 11:48:55 -0700 Received: from grumble.grondar.za (grumble.grondar.za [196.7.18.130]) by grunt.grondar.za (8.6.11/8.6.9) with ESMTP id UAA29904; Mon, 19 Jun 1995 20:48:12 +0200 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by grumble.grondar.za (8.6.11/8.6.9) with SMTP id UAA29837; Mon, 19 Jun 1995 20:48:11 +0200 Message-Id: <199506191848.UAA29837@grumble.grondar.za> X-Authentication-Warning: grumble.grondar.za: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol To: Garrett Wollman cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Crypto code - an architectural proposal. Date: Mon, 19 Jun 1995 20:48:10 +0200 From: Mark Murray Sender: current-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > 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'. Isn't it amazing what `nm' can tell you? Sheesh - I should have done that first! Now (says he, fishing for information) why were folks so cagey with me and Geoff Rehmet back in the 386bsd PatchKit days, when a patchkit was supplied without a crypt.c, so we could make our own? AFAIK this crypt.c's only entry point was crypt, so that puts it in the same class as our current libdescrypt. Why was/is this a problem? Is it just a lack of clarity in the laws? M -- Mark Murray 46 Harvey Rd, Claremont, Cape Town 7700, South Africa +27 21 61-3768 GMT+0200