[ILUG] Installing Crypt

[Daniel Shaw]

Hi,

On 6 Feb 2007, at 20:38, Walter Faleiro wrote:

> Folks,
> I am trying to install the binary for the program crypt on a x_64-bit
> system. If I run man crypt it shows me the man page, but the  
> executable
> crypt is not installed on my system. Checked the entire path. Can  
> someone
> give me the link for the source code for the program crypt.

What's your distro? You can almost certainly just pull in the right  
package with whatever package management stuff you have.

The man page you are probably getting is man (3) crypt, which is for  
the C crypt library functions. What you are looking for is the CLI  
interface to these of which there are now actually multiple  
implementations. For example on my gentoo system...

*  app-admin/pwcrypt
       Latest version available: 1.2.2
       Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
       Size of files: 36 kB
       Homepage:      http://xjack.org/pwcrypt/
       Description:   An improved version of cli-crypt (encrypts data  
sent to it from the c
li)
       License:       GPL-2

*  app-crypt/aes-crypt
       Latest version available: 1.0.7
       Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
       Size of files: 33 kB
       Homepage:      http://my.cubic.ch/users/timtas/aes/
       Description:   Command line program ('aes') to encrypt and  
decrypt data using the Ri
jndael algorithm
       License:       BSD

*  app-crypt/bcrypt
       Latest version available: 1.1
       Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
       Size of files: 35 kB
       Homepage:      http://bcrypt.sourceforge.net/
       Description:   A file encryption utility using Paul Kocher's  
implementation of the b
lowfish algorithm
       License:       BSD

*  app-crypt/ccrypt
       Latest version available: 1.7
       Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
       Size of files: 209 kB
       Homepage:      http://ccrypt.sourceforge.net
       Description:   Encryption and decryption
       License:       GPL-2

*  app-crypt/cli-crypt [ Masked ]
       Latest version available: 1.0
       Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
       Size of files: 1 kB
       Homepage:      http://freshmeat.net/projects/cli-crypt/
       Description:   Command-line interface to crypt(3)
       License:       GPL-2

*  app-crypt/mcrypt
       Latest version available: 2.6.4
       Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
       Size of files: 374 kB
       Homepage:      http://mcrypt.sourceforge.net/
       Description:   replacement of the old unix crypt(1)
       License:       GPL-2

... take your pick ;-)

Cheers,
Dilaniel