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diff --git a/man/man3/xcrypt.3 b/man/man3/xcrypt.3 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d00642a --- /dev/null +++ b/man/man3/xcrypt.3 @@ -0,0 +1,95 @@ +'\" t +.\" Copyright 2003 walter harms (walter.harms@informatik.uni-oldenburg.de) +.\" +.\" SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-1.0-or-later +.\" +.\" this is the 3rd type of interface for cryptographic routines +.\" 1. encrypt() expects a bit field +.\" 2. cbc_crypt() byte values +.\" 3. xencrypt() a hexstring +.\" to bad to be true :( +.\" +.TH XCRYPT 3 2024-05-02 "Linux man-pages (unreleased)" +.SH NAME +xencrypt, xdecrypt, passwd2des \- RFS password encryption +.SH LIBRARY +Standard C library +.RI ( libc ", " \-lc ) +.SH SYNOPSIS +.nf +.B "#include <rpc/des_crypt.h>" +.P +.BI "void passwd2des(char " *passwd ", char *" key ");" +.P +.BI "int xencrypt(char *" secret ", char *" passwd ");" +.BI "int xdecrypt(char *" secret ", char *" passwd ");" +.fi +.SH DESCRIPTION +.BR WARNING : +Do not use these functions in new code. +They do not achieve any type of acceptable cryptographic security guarantees. +.P +The function +.BR passwd2des () +takes a character string +.I passwd +of arbitrary length and fills a character array +.I key +of length 8. +The array +.I key +is suitable for use as DES key. +It has odd parity set in bit 0 of each byte. +Both other functions described here use this function to turn their +argument +.I passwd +into a DES key. +.P +The +.BR xencrypt () +function takes the ASCII character string +.I secret +given in hex, +.\" (over the alphabet 0123456789abcdefABCDEF), +which must have a length that is a multiple of 16, +encrypts it using the DES key derived from +.I passwd +by +.BR passwd2des (), +and outputs the result again in +.I secret +as a hex string +.\" (over the alphabet 0123456789abcdef) +of the same length. +.P +The +.BR xdecrypt () +function performs the converse operation. +.SH RETURN VALUE +The functions +.BR xencrypt () +and +.BR xdecrypt () +return 1 on success and 0 on error. +.SH ATTRIBUTES +For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see +.BR attributes (7). +.TS +allbox; +lbx lb lb +l l l. +Interface Attribute Value +T{ +.na +.nh +.BR passwd2des (), +.BR xencrypt (), +.BR xdecrypt () +T} Thread safety MT-Safe +.TE +.SH VERSIONS +These functions are available since glibc 2.1. +.SH BUGS +The prototypes are missing from the abovementioned include file. +.SH SEE ALSO +.BR cbc_crypt (3) |