rock@rancho.uucp (Rock Kent) (04/13/89)
Several of you responded to my previous posting on this subject <198@rancho.uucp>, in which I stated: I have been unsuccessful in taking files which have been encrypted on an NCR Tower using crypt(1) and decrypting them on a microport Sys V/386 system. I have successfully decrypted the files on the Tower which were originally encrypted on the Tower. I have successfully decrypted the files on the V/386 machine which were originally encrypted on the V/386 machine. Thank you for your comments and suggestions. In response to some of your suggestions, I compared the encrypted files before and after transfer and they were identical byte-for-byte. Thus, dd with conv=swab, while a good solution, wasn't appropriate for this problem. Several of you suggested internal problems may exist with the way the integers are handled in the crypt. That leads me to believe that the Microport version of crypt is non-standard . . . perhaps a version written for sys V/AT and ported to V/386 with small integers?? In any event, I'm now looking for a public domain implementation of crypt to install on my machine. I would appreciate email info on the availability of such a beast. Is the crypt.cc posted a while ago by Philip Peake (philip@axis.uucp) something that could be simply converted into crypt(1)? Thanks again for your help. *************************************************************************** *Rock Kent rock@rancho.uucp POB 8964, Rancho Sante Fe, CA. 92067* ***************************************************************************