hpux man page for bigcrypt

bigcrypt(3C)															      bigcrypt(3C)

NAME
       bigcrypt() - generate hashing encryption on large strings

SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
       acts  like  crypt(3C), but handles much larger strings.	takes the segments of cleartext and encrypts them individually, at first using the
       salt passed in, and then using the first two characters of the previous encrypted segment as the salt for the next  segment.   This  avoids
       duplicated  ciphertext chunks when the password characters are repeated, so that the encryption of a segment involves the encryption of all
       the previous segments.

       Each ciphertext segment is concatenated, with the salt at the beginning, to form the entire encrypted string.

WARNINGS
       HP-UX 11i Version 3 is the last release to support trusted systems functionality.

AUTHOR
       was developed by HP.

SEE ALSO
       crypt(3C).

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