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From: don@allegra.UUCP (Don Mitchell)
Newsgroups: net.crypt
Subject: crypt 3 is OK
Message-ID: <4958@allegra.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 19-Aug-85 01:12:10 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug 19 01:12:10 1985
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Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill
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There is no bug in libc/gen/crypt.c.  The array E is generated from the
permutation in array e.  This is the "salting" opperation.

Cryptography is a field that has no room for hacking.  I would not make
an uneducated change in the DES algorithm and then think it will be
more secure.