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 (Don Mitchell) Newsgroups: net.crypt Subject: crypt 3 is OK Message-ID: <4958@allegra.UUCP> Date: Mon, 19-Aug-85 01:12:10 EDT Article-I.D.: allegra.4958 Posted: Mon Aug 19 01:12:10 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 20-Aug-85 21:13:53 EDT Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill Lines: 6 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.