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).
TO BE OBSOLETED bigcrypt(3C)
