NAME

       crypt - Password hashing based on "crypt"

SYNOPSIS

       package require Tcl  ?8.2?

       package require Trf  ?2.1.3?

       crypt password salt

DESCRIPTION

       The  command  crypt  is  an  interface  to  the  crypt(3)  function  for the encryption of
       passwords. An alternative command for the same, but based on md5 is md5crypt.

       crypt password salt
              Encrypts the password using the specified salt and returns the generated hash value
              as the result of the command.

SEE ALSO

       md5crypt, trf-intro

KEYWORDS

       authentication, crypt, hash, hashing, mac, md5, message digest, password

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (c) 1996-2003, Andreas Kupries <andreas_kupries@users.sourceforge.net>