bigcrypt(3C)bigcrypt(3C)NAMEbigcrypt() - generate hashing encryption on large strings
SYNOPSISDESCRIPTION
acts like crypt(3C), but handles much larger strings. takes the seg‐
ments of cleartext and encrypts them individually, at first using the
salt passed in, and then using the first two characters of the previous
encrypted segment as the salt for the next segment. This avoids dupli‐
cated ciphertext chunks when the password characters are repeated, so
that the encryption of a segment involves the encryption of all the
previous segments.
Each ciphertext segment is concatenated, with the salt at the begin‐
ning, to form the entire encrypted string.
WARNINGS
HP-UX 11i Version 3 is the last release to support trusted systems
functionality.
AUTHOR
was developed by HP.
SEE ALSOcrypt(3C).
TO BE OBSOLETED bigcrypt(3C)