Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!genrad!wjh12!talcott!harvard!seismo!brl-tgr!gwyn From: gwyn@brl-tgr.ARPA (Doug Gwyn) Newsgroups: net.crypt,net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: Unix encryption methods Message-ID: <6648@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Tue, 18-Dec-84 17:28:47 EST Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.6648 Posted: Tue Dec 18 17:28:47 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 20-Dec-84 01:21:51 EST References: <3314@mit-eddie.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: Ballistic Research Lab Lines: 5 Xref: watmath net.crypt:257 net.unix-wizards:11115 > Can anyone out there tell me how passwords are encoded on Unix? All versions of UNIX from 7th Edition on encrypt the passwords with a C library routine described in CRYPT(3C). See the manual for details; basically the NBS DES is used, with variations.