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I was trying to decrypt something in Perl and came across this lovely explanation of the crypt function irreversibility:Note that crypt is intended to be a one-way function, much like breaking eggs to make an omelette.
I gave up decrypting.
:: Sasha, at 09:55 pm on Friday, 24. October 2003
You can try John the ripper and bruteforce decrypting... so called incremential.
:: zoka, at 04:39 am on Saturday, 25. October 2003
I think the whole purpose of crypt(); is the disability for someone to decrypt it. However it is possible, but it is unlikely to come with the uncrypt() function.
Regards,
sk
:: sk, at 10:12 am on Saturday, 25. October 2003
Yes it takes time to decrypt something... DES algorithm is not problem to decrypt "in-fly" any more but with good public-private key encryption software like PGP or TTS it is possible to lock text for next few decades.
:: zoka, at 02:14 pm on Saturday, 25. October 2003
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