Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site allegra.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!don 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 Article-I.D.: allegra.2836 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 Lines: 8 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.