robert@jimi.UUCP (03/04/87)
In article <395@cognos.UUCP> garyp@smokey.UUCP (Gary Puckering) writes: >I see Crypt as a tool similar to compress in it's usage. Therefore, I >suggest that crypt should work like compress. That is, it's syntax >should be something like this: > > crypt [ -k key ] file ... > I would be a little nervous about putting the key on the command line, I beleive it copies over this info when it starts up, but isn't there still a small window in which one could get the key with a ps e or w? Anyway, you shouldn't use crypt. Even I can break it with Robert Baldwin's cbw program. There was a DES program posted to net.sources a while back. Its not agreed that des is secure either, but at least its better than crypt. --robert