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Description:crypt implementation
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	UFC-crypt: ultra fast 'crypt' implementation
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	@(#)README	2.14 3/6/92

Design goals/non goals:
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- Crypt implementation plugin compatible with crypt(3)/fcrypt.

- High performance when used for password cracking.

- Portable to most 32/64 bit machines.

- Startup time/mixed salt performance not critical.

Features of the implementation:
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- On most machines, UFC-crypt runs 30-60 times faster than crypt(3) when
  invoked repeated times with the same salt and varying passwords.

- With mostly constant salts, performance is about two to three times
  that of the default fcrypt implementation shipped with Alec 
  Muffets 'Crack' password cracker. For instructions on how to
  plug UFC-crypt into 'Crack', see below.

- With alternating salts, performance is only about twice
  that of crypt(3).

- Tested on 680x0, 386, SPARC, MIPS, HP-PA, Convex, Cray,
  Pyramid and IBM RS/6000 systems as well as with gcc on IBM PS/2(DOS)
  and Linux on a 386 PC.

- Requires 165 kb for tables.

- UFC-crypt is known to have compilation problems on some micro computer
  C compilers (e.g. Turbo C++) due to its table sizes. Flame the vendors
  for placing arbitrary limitations on their products. Use & support the
  GNU C compiler, gcc.

 
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drwxrwxr-x  0 jwall    techies 	         Jan 16 12:01 crypt
-rw-r-----  0 jwall    techies 	   25265 Jun 29 13:57 crypt/COPYING
-rw-r-----  0 jwall    techies 	    3533 Sep  8 00:02 crypt/Makefile
-rw-r-----  0 jwall    techies 	    6314 Jun 29 13:57 crypt/README
-rwxr-x--x  0 jwall    techies 	     963 Jun 29 13:57 crypt/S2o
-rw-r-----  0 jwall    techies 	    1438 Jun 29 13:57 crypt/cert.c
-rw-r-----  0 jwall    techies 	    8721 Jun 29 13:57 crypt/cert.data
-rw-r-----  0 jwall    techies 	    3197 Jun 29 13:57 crypt/crypt.c
-rw-r-----  0 jwall    techies 	    2385 Jun 29 13:57 crypt/crypt.s300.S
-rw-r-----  0 jwall    techies 	    2603 Jun 29 13:57 crypt/crypt.sparc.S
-rw-r-----  0 jwall    techies 	    2367 Jun 29 13:57 crypt/crypt.sun3.S
-rw-r-----  0 jwall    techies 	   22326 Jun 29 13:57 crypt/crypt_util.c
-rwxr-x--x  0 jwall    techies 	    1082 Jun 29 13:57 crypt/do_ranlib
-rw-r-----  0 jwall    techies 	     959 Jun 29 13:57 crypt/patchlevel.h
-rw-r-----  0 jwall    techies 	    1370 Aug 11 12:46 crypt/speeds.c
-rw-r-----  0 jwall    techies 	    2183 Jun 29 13:57 crypt/ufc-crypt.h
-rw-r-----  0 jwall    techies 	    1463 Jun 29 13:57 crypt/ufc.c
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