NAME
ACrypt -- Encrypt a password
SYNOPSIS
newpass = ACrypt( buffer, password, username )
ubyte *acrypt( ubyte *, ubyte *, ubyte *) ;
FUNCTION
This function takes a buffer of at least 12 characters in length,
an unencrypted password and the user's name (as known to the host
system) and returns an encrypted password in the passed buffer.
This is a one-way encryption. Normally, the user's encrypted
password is stored in a file for future password comparison.
INPUTS
buffer - a pointer to a buffer at least 12 bytes in length.
password - a pointer to an unencrypted password string.
username - a pointer to the user's name.
RESULT
newpass - a pointer to the passed buffer if successful, NULL
upon failure. The encrypted password placed in the
buffer will be be eleven (11) characters in length
and will be NULL-terminated.
EXAMPLE
ubyte *pw, *getpassword() ;
ubyte *user = "alf"
ubyte *newpass ;
ubyte buffer[16] ; /* size >= 12 */
pw = getpassword() ; /* your own function */
if((newpass = ACrypt(buffer, pw, user)) != NULL)
{
printf("pw = %sn", newpass) ; /* newpass = &buffer[0] */
}
else
{
printf("ACrypt failedn") ;
}