ENCRYPT
Section: POSIX Programmer's Manual (3P)
Updated: 2017
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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 successful. 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
A future version of the standard may mark this interface as
obsolete or remove it altogether.
SEE ALSO
crypt(),
setkey()
The Base Definitions volume of POSIX.1-2017,
<unistd.h>
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Specifications Issue 7, 2018 Edition,
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