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crypt(n)																  crypt(n)

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NAME
       crypt - Password hashing based on "crypt"

SYNOPSIS
       package require Tcl  ?8.2?

       package require Trf  ?2.1.4?

       crypt password salt

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DESCRIPTION
       The  command crypt is an interface to the crypt(3) function for the encryption of passwords. An alternative command for the same, but based
       on md5 is md5crypt.

       crypt password salt
	      Encrypts the password using the specified salt and returns the generated hash value as the result of the command.

SEE ALSO
       md5crypt, trf-intro

KEYWORDS
       authentication, crypt, hash, hashing, mac, md5, message digest, password

COPYRIGHT
       Copyright (c) 1996-2003, Andreas Kupries <andreas_kupries@users.sourceforge.net>

Trf transformer commands					       2.1.4								  crypt(n)