linux man page for passwd2des

XCRYPT(3)						     Linux Programmer's Manual							 XCRYPT(3)

NAME
       xencrypt, xdecrypt, passwd2des - RFS password encryption

SYNOPSIS
       #include <rpc/des_crypt.h>

       void passwd2des(char *passwd, char *key);

       int xencrypt(char *secret, char *passwd);

       int xdecrypt(char *secret, char *passwd);

DESCRIPTION
       The  function  passwd2des() takes a character string passwd of arbitrary length and fills a character array key of length 8.  The array 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 passwd into a DES key.

       The  xencrypt()	function takes the ASCII character string secret given in hex, which must have a length that is a multiple of 16, encrypts
       it using the DES key derived from passwd by passwd2des(), and outputs the result again in secret as a hex string of the same length.

       The xdecrypt() function performs the converse operation.

RETURN VALUE
       The functions xencrypt() and xdecrypt() return 1 on success and 0 on error.

VERSIONS
       These routines are present in libc 4.6.27 and later, and in glibc 2.1 and later.

BUGS
       The prototypes are missing from the abovementioned include file.

SEE ALSO
       cbc_crypt(3)

COLOPHON
       This page is part of release 3.27 of the Linux man-pages project.  A description of the project, and information about reporting bugs,  can
       be found at http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/.

								    2003-04-04								 XCRYPT(3)