ENCRYPT(3P) POSIX Programmer's Manual ENCRYPT(3P)PROLOG
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NAME
encrypt — encoding function (CRYPT)
SYNOPSIS
#include <unistd.h>
void encrypt(char block[64], int edflag);
DESCRIPTION
The encrypt() function shall provide access to an implementation-
defined encoding algorithm. The key generated by setkey() is used to
encrypt the string block with encrypt().
The block argument to encrypt() shall be an array of length 64 bytes
containing only the bytes with values of 0 and 1. The array is modified
in place to a similar array using the key set by setkey(). If edflag
is 0, the argument is encoded. If edflag is 1, the argument may be
decoded (see the APPLICATION USAGE section); if the argument is not
decoded, errno shall be set to [ENOSYS].
The encrypt() function shall not change the setting of errno if suc‐
cessful. An application wishing to check for error situations should
set errno to 0 before calling encrypt(). If errno is non-zero on
return, an error has occurred.
The encrypt() function need not be thread-safe.
RETURN VALUE
The encrypt() function shall not return a value.
ERRORS
The encrypt() function shall fail if:
ENOSYS The functionality is not supported on this implementation.
The following sections are informative.
EXAMPLES
None.
APPLICATION USAGE
Historical implementations of the encrypt() function used a rather
primitive encoding algorithm.
In some environments, decoding might not be implemented. This is
related to some Government restrictions on encryption and decryption
routines. Historical practice has been to ship a different version of
the encryption library without the decryption feature in the routines
supplied. Thus the exported version of encrypt() does encoding but not
decoding.
RATIONALE
None.
FUTURE DIRECTIONS
None.
SEE ALSOcrypt(), setkey()
The Base Definitions volume of POSIX.1‐2008, <unistd.h>
COPYRIGHT
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from IEEE Std 1003.1, 2013 Edition, Standard for Information Technology
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