topic Re: Password Encryption in Operating System - HP-UX

Password Encryption

Jeff Petrik — Thu, 18 Aug 2005 08:09:53 GMT

Is there an hp-ux command to encrypt/un-uncrypt a unix test file from the command line?

Re: Password Encryption

Pete Randall — Thu, 18 Aug 2005 08:10:48 GMT

man crypt

Pete

Re: Password Encryption

Pedro Cirne — Thu, 18 Aug 2005 08:11:50 GMT

Hi,

Check the man pages for "crypt"

Enjoy :)

Pedro

Re: Password Encryption

Florian Heigl (new acc) — Thu, 18 Aug 2005 08:33:51 GMT

You should note that crypt is merely scrambling the password. :)
For real purposes You'll need to install the HP-UX kernel random number generator and use openssl.

Re: Password Encryption

baiju_3 — Thu, 18 Aug 2005 08:36:50 GMT

Check for ccrypt .It is advanced than crypt I think.

Thanks.
BL

Re: Password Encryption

baiju_3 — Thu, 18 Aug 2005 08:38:03 GMT

ccrypt is a gnu utility , you may have to down load probably.

Thanks.
BL.

Re: Password Encryption

A. Clay Stephenson — Thu, 18 Aug 2005 08:39:12 GMT

Actually the crypt command has nothing to do with the crypt() function -- which is used to hash the password. The crypt() function is not actually encryption because the process is not reversible. The crypt command does actually encrypt and decrypt. Having said that, the crypt command offers modest security and there are much better alternatives available now but crypt is standard across UNIX platforms.