At 12:31 AM 4/10/96 -0700, Chris McAuliffe wrote:

The man page is a bit dated: crypt implements a one-rotor machine designed along the lines of the German Enigma, but with a 256-element rotor. Methods of attack on such machines are known, but not widely; moreover the amount of work required is likely to be large.

Clearly written before CBW became popular.

What they are not telling you is the "large amount of work" is to get CBW to *compile*, not to break crypt(1). (Crypt Breakers Workbench uses some obsolete calls. I do not know of an existing updated version, but that does not mean one does not exist...) --- | Remember: Life is not always champagne. Sometimes it is REAL pain. | |"The moral PGP Diffie taught Zimmermann unites all| Disclaimer: | | mankind free in one-key-steganography-privacy!" | Ignore the man | |`finger -l alano@teleport.com` for PGP 2.6.2 key | behind the keyboard.| | http://www.teleport.com/~alano/ | alano@teleport.com |