DESCRIPTION

These functions encrypt and decrypt 64-bit messages. The setkey() function sets the key used by encrypt(). The key parameter used here is an array of 64 bytes, each of which has numerical value 1 or 0. The bytes key[n] where n=8*i-1 are ignored, so that the effective key length is 56 bits.

The encrypt() function modifies the passed buffer, encoding if edflag is 0, and decoding if 1 is being passed. Like the key parameter also block is a bit vector representation of the actual value that is encoded. The result is returned in that same vector.

These two functions are not reentrant, that is, the key data is kept in static storage. The functions setkey_r() and encrypt_r() are the reentrant versions. They use the following structure to hold the key data:

Before calling setkey_r() set data->initialized to zero.

RETURN VALUE

These functions do not return any value.

ERRORS

Set errno to zero before calling the above functions. On success, it is unchanged.

CONFORMING TO

The functions encrypt() and setkey() conform to SVr4, SUSv2, and POSIX.1-2001. The functions encrypt_r() and setkey_r() are GNU extensions.

NOTES

In glibc 2.2 these functions use the DES algorithm.

EXAMPLE

You need to link with libcrypt to compile this example with glibc 2.2. To do useful work the key[] and txt[] arrays must be filled with a useful bit pattern.

#define _XOPEN_SOURCE
#include <unistd.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

int
main(void)
{
    char key[64];      /* bit pattern for key */
    char txt[64];      /* bit pattern for messages */

    setkey(key);
    encrypt(txt, 0);   /* encode */
    encrypt(txt, 1);   /* decode */
}

SEE ALSO

cbc_crypt(3), crypt(3), ecb_crypt(3), feature_test_macros(7)