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RE: mcrypt commnad
- From: "Gupta, Sanjay" <SGupta at Epylon dot com>
- To: 'Andrew Markebo' <flognat at flognat dot myip dot org>
- Cc: "'cygwin at cygwin dot com'" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2002 14:21:51 -0800
- Subject: RE: mcrypt commnad
Andrew,
I did not answer you question
You asked
Meanwhile, just a quick thought, if I remember right you said
something like "I can't use cygwin crypt(), because it is not
unix-compatible", well how many crypt()'s out there on Solaris, Linux,
HP, digital alpha are compatible??
My answer :- As I recall the crypt command in all Unix works the same way
e.g. if I want to encrypt a file, I would use
crypt crypt_password < file_you_want_to_encrypt > encrypted_file
and to decrypt file, you would issue command
crypt crypt_password encrypted_file
but the same thing does not work in cygwin. The purpose of crypt command in
cygwin is different than the purpose of crypt command in unix. I have no
idea why it is different but it is.
Sanjay
-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew Markebo [mailto:flognat@flognat.myip.org]
Sent: Wednesday, April 03, 2002 1:51 PM
To: Gupta, Sanjay
Cc: 'cygwin@cygwin.com'
Subject: Re: mcrypt commnad
No idea about why you are missing cputs and cgets, easy way is to use
something other to print and input a string..
Meanwhile, just a quick thought, if I remember right you said
something like "I can't use cygwin crypt(), because it is not
unix-compatible", well how many crypt()'s out there on Solaris, Linux,
HP, digital alpha are compatible??
Or is it me being on the wrong line?? Using mcrypt on the unix-machine
and cygwin probably does the same thing..
BTW Saw a note on the mcrypt-dev on compiling mcrypt with cygwin, they
referred to use and link against mingw..
http://lists.hellug.gr/pipermail/mcrypt-dev/2001/000087.html
/Andy
[...]
| getpass.o: In function `mcrypt_getpass':
| /usr/src/mcrypt-2.5.10/src/getpass.c:48: undefined reference to `_cputs'
| /usr/src/mcrypt-2.5.10/src/getpass.c:49: undefined reference to `_cgets'
[...]
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