Password Encryption

[Jeff Petrik]

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

[Pete Randall]

man crypt


Pete

[Pedro Cirne]

Hi,

Check the man pages for "crypt"

Enjoy :)

Pedro

[Florian Heigl (new acc)]

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.

[baiju_3]

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


Thanks.
BL

[baiju_3]

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


Thanks.
BL.

[A. Clay Stephenson]

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.