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author | markm <markm@FreeBSD.org> | 1996-04-13 08:03:24 +0000 |
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committer | markm <markm@FreeBSD.org> | 1996-04-13 08:03:24 +0000 |
commit | 4d98cdc072dba1c7b62363f2ee13c688dd5e8e6f (patch) | |
tree | b580c6a56f76ecbb70e66abecd9466912e09a04c /secure/lib/libcipher/cipher.3 | |
parent | 7dd8453c64d0f159c68e332c5ce2707a384acbfb (diff) | |
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Split the libcrypt and libcipher man pages.
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diff --git a/secure/lib/libcipher/cipher.3 b/secure/lib/libcipher/cipher.3 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..162e89f --- /dev/null +++ b/secure/lib/libcipher/cipher.3 @@ -0,0 +1,150 @@ +.\" FreeSec: libcrypt for NetBSD +.\" +.\" Copyright (c) 1994 David Burren +.\" All rights reserved. +.\" +.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without +.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions +.\" are met: +.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. +.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the +.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. +.\" 4. Neither the name of the author nor the names of other contributors +.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software +.\" without specific prior written permission. +.\" +.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND +.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE +.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE +.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE +.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL +.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS +.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) +.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT +.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY +.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF +.\" SUCH DAMAGE. +.\" +.\" $Id: crypt.3,v 1.5 1995/07/25 14:03:49 mark Exp $ +.\" +.\" Manual page, using -mandoc macros +.\" +.Dd March 9, 1994 +.Dt CIPHER 3 +.Os "FreeSec 1.0" +.Sh NAME +.Nm setkey , +.Nm encrypt , +.Nm des_setkey , +.Nm des_cipher , +.Nd DES encryption +.Sh SYNOPSIS +.Ft int +.Fn setkey "char *key" +.Ft int +.Fn encrypt "char *block" "int flag" +.Ft int +.Fn des_setkey "const char *key" +.Ft int +.Fn des_cipher "const char *in" "char *out" "long salt" "int count" +.Sh DESCRIPTION +The functions, +.Fn encrypt , +.Fn setkey , +.Fn des_setkey +and +.Fn des_cipher +provide access to the +.Tn DES +algorithm. +.Fn setkey +is passed a 64-byte array of binary values (numeric 0 or 1). +A 56-bit key is extracted from this array by dividing the +array into groups of 8, and ignoring the last bit in each group. +That bit is reserved for a byte parity check by DES, but is ignored +by these functions. +.Pp +The +.Fa block +argument to +.Fn encrypt +is also a 64-byte array of binary values. +If the value of +.Fa flag +is 0, +.Fa block +is encrypted otherwise it is decrypted. +The result is returned in the original array +.Fa block +after using the key specified by +.Fn setkey +to process it. +.Pp +The argument to +.Fn des_setkey +is a character array of length 8. +The least significant bit (the parity bit) in each character is ignored, +and the remaining bits are concatenated to form a 56-bit key. +The function +.Fn des_cipher +encrypts (or decrypts if +.Fa count +is negative) the 64-bits stored in the 8 characters at +.Fa in +using +.Xr abs 3 +of +.Fa count +iterations of +.Tn DES +and stores the 64-bit result in the 8 characters at +.Fa out +(which may be the same as +.Fa in +). +The +.Fa salt +introduces disorder in the +.Tn DES +algorithm in one of 16777216 or 4096 possible ways +(ie. with 24 or 12 bits: if bit +.Em i +of the +.Ar salt +is set, then bits +.Em i +and +.Em i+24 +are swapped in the +.Tn DES +E-box output). +.Pp +The functions +.Fn setkey , +.Fn encrypt , +.Fn des_setkey , +and +.Fn des_cipher +return 0 on success and 1 on failure. +.Pp +The +.Fn setkey +and +.Fn des_setkey +functions manipulate the same key space. +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr login 1 , +.Xr passwd 1 , +.Xr getpass 3 , +.Xr crypt 3 , +.Xr passwd 5 +.Sh HISTORY +This library (FreeSec 1.0) was developed outside the United States of America +as an unencumbered replacement for the U.S.-only NetBSD libcrypt encryption +library. +Users should be aware that this code (and programs staticly linked with it) +may not be exported from the U.S., although it apparently can be imported. +.Sh AUTHOR +David Burren <davidb@werj.com.au> |