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Updated: July 2017
 
 

libcrypt(3LIB)

Name

libcrypt - encryption/decryption library

Synopsis

cc [ flag... ] file... –lcrypt [ library... ]

Description

Functions in this library provide encoding and decoding handling routines.

INTERFACES

The shared object libcrypt.so.1 provides the public interfaces defined below. See Intro(3) for additional information on shared object interfaces.

crypt
encrypt
setkey

Files

/usr/lib/libcrypt.so.1

shared object

/usr/lib/64/libcrypt.so.1

64-bit shared object

Attributes

See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

ATTRIBUTE TYPE
ATTRIBUTE VALUE
MT-Level
Unsafe

See Also

Intro(3), encrypt(3C), setkey(3C), attributes(5)