Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 25 Feb 1998 09:37:43 +0100 | From | Lorens Kockum <> | Subject | Re: Is there any way... |
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On Tue, Feb 24, 1998 at 07:18:24PM -0500, Sergei Viznyuk wrote: > > I want a very simple thing: to be able to encrypt AND DECRYPT password. > Now, if I am, say, user "smitty" and I want to encrypt my password for > some application and store it into some readable by everyone file. Other > users will do the same for their passwords.
That file is called /etc/passwd, except if you have shadow passwords (like everyone should).
> Now, how to make it so that only the owner can decrypt his/her own > password providing the source code for the programs which will do > encyption and decryption should be publicly available?
The user, by definition, knows his password. Why should he want to decrypt it ?
Let's go a level higher in what you want to do. What is all this supposed to be good for ?
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