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From: don@allegra.UUCP (D. Mitchell)
Newsgroups: net.crypt
Subject: UNIX crypt
Message-ID: <2836@allegra.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 5-Oct-84 00:19:26 EDT
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Posted: Fri Oct  5 00:19:26 1984
Date-Received: Sat, 6-Oct-84 03:53:21 EDT
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill
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Crypt(1) was broken by Jim Reeds.  Bob Morris Sr. then wrote an improved
version and Jim Reeds and Peter Weinberger broke that.

You cannot use "long keys" in crypt(1).  Like the UNIX password system,
it simply throws away everything after the eighth character.

We wrote a new crypt program based on DES.  No one was interested in it,
and it was never released.