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setkey(3C)						   Standard C Library Functions 						setkey(3C)

NAME
setkey - set encoding key SYNOPSIS
#include <stdlib.h> void setkey(const char *key); DESCRIPTION
The setkey() function provides (rather primitive) access to the hashing algorithm employed by the crypt(3C) function. The argument of setkey() is an array of length 64 bytes containing only the bytes with numerical value of 0 and 1. If this string is divided into groups of 8, the low-order bit in each group is ignored; this gives a 56-bit key which is used by the algorithm. This is the key that will be used with the algorithm to encode a string block passed to encrypt(3C). RETURN VALUES
No values are returned. ERRORS
The setkey() function will fail if: ENOSYS The functionality is not supported on this implementation. USAGE
In some environments, decoding may not be implemented. This is related to U.S. Government restrictions on encryption and decryption rou- tines: the DES decryption algorithm cannot be exported outside the U.S.A. Historical practice has been to ship a different version of the encryption library without the decryption feature in the routines supplied. Thus the exported version of encrypt() does encoding but not decoding. Because setkey() does not return a value, applications wishing to check for errors should set errno to 0, call setkey(), then test errno and, if it is non-zero, assume an error has occurred. ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Interface Stability |Standard | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |MT-Level |Safe | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
crypt(3C), encrypt(3C), attributes(5), standards(5) SunOS 5.11 14 Aug 2002 setkey(3C)

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encrypt(3C)						   Standard C Library Functions 					       encrypt(3C)

NAME
encrypt - encoding function SYNOPSIS
#include <crypt.h> void encrypt(char block[64], int edflag); Standard conforming #include <unistd.h> void encrypt(char block[64], int edflag); DESCRIPTION
The encrypt() function provides (rather primitive) access to the hashing algorithm employed by the crypt(3C) function. The key generated by setkey(3C) is used to encrypt the string block with encrypt(). The block argument to encrypt() is an array of length 64 bytes containing only the bytes with numerical value of 0 and 1. The array is mod- ified in place to a similar array using the key set by setkey(3C). If edflag is 0, the argument is encoded. If edflag is 1, the argument may be decoded (see the USAGE section below); if the argument is not decoded, errno will be set to ENOSYS. RETURN VALUES
The encrypt() function returns no value. ERRORS
The encrypt() function will fail if: ENOSYS The functionality is not supported on this implementation. USAGE
In some environments, decoding may not be implemented. This is related to U.S. Government restrictions on encryption and decryption rou- tines: the DES decryption algorithm cannot be exported outside the U.S.A. Historical practice has been to ship a different version of the encryption library without the decryption feature in the routines supplied. Thus the exported version of encrypt() does encoding but not decoding. Because encrypt() does not return a value, applications wishing to check for errors should set errno to 0, call encrypt(), then test errno and, if it is non-zero, assume an error has occurred. ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Interface Stability |Standard | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |MT-Level |Safe | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
crypt(3C), setkey(3C), attributes(5) SunOS 5.10 2 May 2001 encrypt(3C)
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