Crypting

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Aug 24 09:11, Andrew DeFaria wrote:
> Max Bowsher wrote:
> >You can't.
> >
> >/usr/share/doc/Cygwin/crypt.README
> 
> Sorry, didn't think there was a readme for just little 'ole crypt. I 
> should have looked.
> 
> Anyways, this is strange because I recall using crypt in this fashion 
> before - on Cygwin! Did this change?

The original code has brought into the Cygwin net distro at some point
in 2001.  Except for the Makefile, nothing else has changed since then.

> Sans crypt(1), how can one encrypt a file...?

E.g. `openssl enc -des -in filename -out filename.out

See `man openssl'


Corinna

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