Re: lcrypt for Cygwin

From: Alex (fletchra@qsilver.queensu.ca)
Date: 02/09/02


> I downloaded the lcrypt source and tried to use it. I know how to encrypt
> passwords with it but I'm not sure how to decrypt them. Can anyone tell me?
you can't.

when you send something through crypt(), it isn't encrypted, it is triple
hashed.  You can't take said triple hash and get the original back.

Ae.

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