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From: T o n g on 9 Aug 2010 22:50
Hi,

What's the current replacement for the old unix "crypt"?

mcrypt was intended to be the replacement, but "Please note that this
package is buggy and unmaintained by the upstream authors".

I hope openssl can do that, but I can't figure that out from openssl man
page.

thanks

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From: Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. on 9 Aug 2010 23:00
In <i3qec8$jna$5(a)dough.gmane.org>, T o n g wrote:
>What's the current replacement for the old unix "crypt"?

I suggest the "makepasswd" package, which contains the useful "makepasswd"
script. It can generate passwords, but it also has the functions of crypt;
check the manpage.
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From: Bob Proulx on 10 Aug 2010 03:00
T o n g wrote:
> What's the current replacement for the old unix "crypt"?

It depends upon what you mean by replacement. Do you want to decrypt
previously encrypted files? Or do you want a currently best in class
secure file encryption program?

If the latter then 'gpg' from the 'gnupg' package is a standard
program.

$ apt-cache show gnupg

Bob
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