Extended crypt library for descrypt, md5crypt, bcrypt, and others

libxcrypt is a modern library for one-way hashing of passwords. It supports a wide variety of both modern and historical hashing methods: yescrypt, gost-yescrypt, scrypt, bcrypt, sha512crypt, sha256crypt, md5crypt, SunMD5, sha1crypt, NT, bsdicrypt, bigcrypt, and descrypt. It provides the traditional Unix *crypt* and *crypt_r* interfaces, as well as a set of extended interfaces pioneered by Openwall Linux, *crypt_rn*, *crypt_ra*, *crypt_gensalt*, *crypt_gensalt_rn*, and *crypt_gensalt_ra*.

libxcrypt is intended to be used by *login(1)*, *passwd(1)*, and other similar programs; that is, to hash a small number of passwords during an interactive authentication dialogue with a human. It is not suitable for use in bulk password-cracking applications, or in any other situation where speed is more important than careful handling of sensitive data. However, it *is* intended to be fast and lightweight enough for use in servers that must field thousands of login attempts per minute.

Name

libxcrypt

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HaikuPorts

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haikuports_x86_64

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4.4.38-1

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