Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) Newsgroups: net.crypt Subject: Re: Re: Unix encryption methods Message-ID: <4840@utzoo.UUCP> Date: Fri, 28-Dec-84 19:02:26 EST Article-I.D.: utzoo.4840 Posted: Fri Dec 28 19:02:26 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 28-Dec-84 19:02:26 EST References: <6548@brl-tgr.UUCP>, <12900003@uokvax.UUCP> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology Lines: 9 > P.S. Does anyone know if the output of crypt(3) is unique? I.e. could there > be more than one key/salt combination which outputs the same result? Definitely. If for no other reason, because the output is folded into a more limited character set than is used either for input or for internal processing. -- Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology {allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!henry