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From: Yaakov Selkowitz <yselkowi@redhat.com>
To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com
Subject: [PATCH crypt 7/8] Update README
Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2017 02:58:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170804025258.19248-8-yselkowi@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170804025258.19248-1-yselkowi@redhat.com>

---
 crypt.README | 38 ++++----------------------------------
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 34 deletions(-)

diff --git a/crypt.README b/crypt.README
index d7ee763..336737e 100644
--- a/crypt.README
+++ b/crypt.README
@@ -1,46 +1,16 @@
-This is the DES-crypt package Version 1.1
+This is the crypt package Version 2.0
 
 It provides a static library libcrypt.a as well as a shared library
 cygcrypt-0.dll together with a link lib libcrypt.dll.a, which export
 the functions
 
         crypt(3)
+        crypt_r(3)
         encrypt(3)
         setkey(3)
 
-The passwords created by crypt(3) are 56 bit DES encrypted and are
-100% identical to those created by the Linux crypt().
-
-Additionally, this package provides a command line tool crypt.exe 
-which is a tool to generate encrypted passwords from cleartext
-passwords.  The encrypted password is written to stdout with a trailing
-line feed. 
-
-Use this tool to create password entries in /etc/passwd on 9x systems. 
-On 9x machines, this DES password authentication is used in applications
-like e. g. login(1) or ftpd(8).  Note that the password entry in
-/etc/passwd is not used on NT systems.  Instead, users are authenticated
-using the NT password itself.  So crypt.exe is mainly a convenience for
-9x users.
-
-Note that this tool does *not* provide the crypt(1) functionality known
-from e. g. SUN Solaris(tm) machines.  The encryption used here is
-incompatible with the encryption used there.
-
-The usage of "our" crypt is like this:
-
-crypt cleartext
-
-    generates a password with a random salt.
-
-crypt salt cleartext
-
-    generates a password with salt `salt'.  The result can be used to
-    compare a given encrypted password with a cleartext password eg.
-    typed by a user.
-
-The salt is a two character string which consists of the first two
-characters of the encrypted password.
+The passwords created by crypt(3) are 100% identical to those created by 
+the Linux crypt().  DES, MD5, SHA-256, and SHA-512 algorithms are supported.
 
 Please send requests, error reports etc. to the mailing list
 cygwin@cygwin.com.
-- 
2.13.2

  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-08-04  2:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-08-04  2:53 [PATCH crypt 0/8] Use musl implementation Yaakov Selkowitz
2017-08-04  2:53 ` [PATCH crypt 1/8] Import musl sources Yaakov Selkowitz
2017-08-04  2:53 ` [PATCH crypt 2/8] Port sources to Cygwin Yaakov Selkowitz
2017-08-04  2:53 ` [PATCH crypt 3/8] Export crypt_r Yaakov Selkowitz
2017-08-04  2:58 ` Yaakov Selkowitz [this message]
2017-08-04  2:58 ` [PATCH crypt 4/8] Guard GNU extensions in header, declare other functions Yaakov Selkowitz
2017-08-04  2:58 ` [PATCH crypt 8/8] Add .gitignore Yaakov Selkowitz
2017-08-04  3:01 ` [PATCH crypt 5/8] Disable blowfish cipher Yaakov Selkowitz
2017-08-04  7:46   ` Corinna Vinschen
2017-08-04  8:32     ` Yaakov Selkowitz
2017-09-01  1:38       ` Yaakov Selkowitz
2017-08-04  3:02 ` [PATCH crypt 6/8] Update Makefile Yaakov Selkowitz
2017-09-01  1:40   ` [PATCH v2 " Yaakov Selkowitz
2017-09-01  9:03     ` Corinna Vinschen

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