[comp.unix.questions] Help: Crypt algorithm

mck@hpdstma.HP.COM (Doug Mckenzie) (11/04/88)

>Could somebody please point to me the algorithm that crypt uses
>to perform password encryption given a key and two-character salt?

Scientific American has a good two-part article (in Computer Recreations
I think) on enigma and DES.  First part: 9/88, second: 10/88.

Doug McKenzie
Hewlett-Packard 
TCG Support