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1.\" $OpenBSD: crypt.3,v 1.19 2002/01/24 20:33:45 mickey Exp $
2.\"
3.\" FreeSec: libcrypt
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5.\" Copyright (c) 1994 David Burren
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32.\" Manual page, using -mandoc macros
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34.Dd March 9, 1994
35.Dt CRYPT 3
36.Os
37.Sh NAME
38.Nm crypt ,
39.Nm setkey ,
40.Nm encrypt ,
41.Nm des_setkey ,
42.Nm des_cipher
43.Nd DES encryption
44.Sh SYNOPSIS
45.Fd #include <unistd.h>
46.Ft char *
47.Fn crypt "const char *key" "const char *setting"
48.Ft int
49.Fn setkey "char *key"
50.Ft int
51.Fn encrypt "char *block" "int flag"
52.Ft int
53.Fn des_setkey "const char *key"
54.Ft int
55.Fn des_cipher "const char *in" "char *out" "int32_t salt" "int count"
56.Sh DESCRIPTION
57The
58.Fn crypt
59function performs password encryption based on the
60.Tn NBS
61Data Encryption Standard (DES).
62Additional code has been added to deter key search attempts and to use
63stronger hashing algorithms.
64.Pp
65The first argument to
66.Fn crypt
67is a
68.Dv null Ns -terminated
69string, typically a user's typed password.
70The second is in one of three forms:
71if it begins with an underscore
72.Pq Ql _
73then an extended format is used
74in interpreting both the key and the setting, as outlined below.
75If it begins
76with a string character
77.Pq Ql $
78and a number then a different algorithm is used depending on the number.
79At the moment a
80.Ql $1
81chooses MD5 hashing and a
82.Ql $2
83chooses Blowfish hashing; see below for more information.
84.Ss Extended crypt
85The
86.Ar key
87is divided into groups of 8 characters (the last group is null-padded)
88and the low-order 7 bits of each character (56 bits per group) are
89used to form the DES key as follows:
90the first group of 56 bits becomes the initial DES key.
91For each additional group, the XOR of the encryption of the current DES
92key with itself and the group bits becomes the next DES key.
93.Pp
94The setting is a 9-character array consisting of an underscore followed
95by 4 bytes of iteration count and 4 bytes of salt.
96These are encoded as printable characters, 6 bits per character,
97least significant character first.
98The values 0 to 63 are encoded as
99.Dq \&./0-9A-Za-z .
100This allows 24 bits for both
101.Fa count
102and
103.Fa salt .
104.Ss "MD5" crypt
105For
106.Tn MD5
107crypt the version number,
108.Fa salt
109and the hashed password are separated by the
110.Ql $
111character.
112The maximum length of a password is limited by
113the length counter of the MD5 context, which is about
1142**64.
115A valid MD5 password entry looks like this:
116.Pp
117.Dq $1$caeiHQwX$hsKqOjrFRRN6K32OWkCBf1 .
118.Pp
119The whole MD5 password string is passed as
120.Fa setting
121for interpretation.
122.Ss "Blowfish" crypt
123The
124.Tn Blowfish
125version of crypt has 128 bits of
126.Fa salt
127in order to make building dictionaries of common passwords space consuming.
128The initial state of the
129.Tn Blowfish
130cipher is expanded using the
131.Fa salt
132and the
133.Fa password
134repeating the process a variable number of rounds, which is encoded in
135the password string.
136The maximum password length is 72.
137The final Blowfish password entry is created by encrypting the string
138.Pp
139.Dq OrpheanBeholderScryDoubt
140.Pp
141with the
142.Tn Blowfish
143state 64 times.
144.Pp
145The version number, the logarithm of the number of rounds and
146the concatenation of salt and hashed password are separated by the
147.Ql $
148character.
149An encoded
150.Sq 8
151would specify 256 rounds.
152A valid Blowfish password looks like this:
153.Pp
154.Dq $2a$12$eIAq8PR8sIUnJ1HaohxX2O9x9Qlm2vK97LJ5dsXdmB.eXF42qjchC .
155.Pp
156The whole Blowfish password string is passed as
157.Fa setting
158for interpretation.
159.Ss "Traditional" crypt
160The first 8 bytes of the key are null-padded, and the low-order 7 bits of
161each character is used to form the 56-bit
162.Tn DES
163key.
164.Pp
165The setting is a 2-character array of the ASCII-encoded salt.
166Thus only 12 bits of
167.Fa salt
168are used.
169.Fa count
170is set to 25.
171.Ss DES Algorithm
172The
173.Fa salt
174introduces disorder in the
175.Tn DES
176algorithm in one of 16777216 or 4096 possible ways
177(i.e., with 24 or 12 bits: if bit
178.Em i
179of the
180.Ar salt
181is set, then bits
182.Em i
183and
184.Em i+24
185are swapped in the
186.Tn DES
187E-box output).
188.Pp
189The DES key is used to encrypt a 64-bit constant using
190.Ar count
191iterations of
192.Tn DES .
193The value returned is a
194.Dv null Ns -terminated
195string, 20 or 13 bytes (plus null) in length, consisting of the
196.Ar setting
197followed by the encoded 64-bit encryption.
198.Pp
199The functions
200.Fn encrypt ,
201.Fn setkey ,
202.Fn des_setkey ,
203and
204.Fn des_cipher
205provide access to the
206.Tn DES
207algorithm itself.
208.Fn setkey
209is passed a 64-byte array of binary values (numeric 0 or 1).
210A 56-bit key is extracted from this array by dividing the
211array into groups of 8, and ignoring the last bit in each group.
212That bit is reserved for a byte parity check by DES, but is ignored
213by these functions.
214.Pp
215The
216.Fa block
217argument to
218.Fn encrypt
219is also a 64-byte array of binary values.
220If the value of
221.Fa flag
222is 0,
223.Fa block
224is encrypted otherwise it is decrypted.
225The result is returned in the original array
226.Fa block
227after using the key specified by
228.Fn setkey
229to process it.
230.Pp
231The argument to
232.Fn des_setkey
233is a character array of length 8.
234The least significant bit (the parity bit) in each character is ignored,
235and the remaining bits are concatenated to form a 56-bit key.
236The function
237.Fn des_cipher
238encrypts (or decrypts if
239.Fa count
240is negative) the 64-bits stored in the 8 characters at
241.Fa in
242using
243.Xr abs 3
244of
245.Fa count
246iterations of
247.Tn DES
248and stores the 64-bit result in the 8 characters at
249.Fa out
250(which may be the same as
251.Fa in ) .
252The
253.Fa salt
254specifies perturbations to the
255.Tn DES
256E-box output as described above.
257.Pp
258The function
259.Fn crypt
260returns a pointer to the encrypted value on success, and
261.Dv NULL
262on failure.
263The functions
264.Fn setkey ,
265.Fn encrypt ,
266.Fn des_setkey ,
267and
268.Fn des_cipher
269return 0 on success and 1 on failure.
270.Pp
271The
272.Fn crypt ,
273.Fn setkey ,
274and
275.Fn des_setkey
276functions all manipulate the same key space.
277.Sh SEE ALSO
278.Xr login 1 ,
279.Xr passwd 1 ,
280.Xr blowfish 3 ,
281.Xr getpass 3 ,
282.Xr md5 3 ,
283.Xr passwd 5
284.Sh AUTHORS
285David Burren <davidb@werj.com.au>
286.Sh HISTORY
287A rotor-based
288.Fn crypt
289function appeared in
290.At v3 .
291The current style
292.Fn crypt
293first appeared in
294.At v7 .
295.Pp
296This library (FreeSec 1.0) was developed outside the United States of America
297as an unencumbered replacement for the U.S.-only libcrypt encryption
298library.
299Programs linked against the
300.Fn crypt
301interface may be exported from the U.S.A. only if they use
302.Fn crypt
303solely for authentication purposes and avoid use of
304the other programmer interfaces listed above.
305Special care has been taken
306in the library so that programs which only use the
307.Fn crypt
308interface do not pull in the other components.
309.Sh BUGS
310The
311.Fn crypt
312function returns a pointer to static data, and subsequent calls to
313.Fn crypt
314will modify the same object.