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1.\" $OpenBSD: crypt.3,v 1.27 2007/10/08 11:55:27 pyr Exp $
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32.\" Manual page, using -mandoc macros
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34.Dd $Mdocdate: October 8 2007 $
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.Nm bcrypt_gensalt ,
44.Nm bcrypt ,
45.Nm md5crypt
46.Nd DES encryption
47.Sh SYNOPSIS
48.Fd #include <pwd.h>
49.Fd #include <unistd.h>
50.Ft char *
51.Fn crypt "const char *key" "const char *setting"
52.Ft int
53.Fn setkey "const char *key"
54.Ft int
55.Fn encrypt "char *block" "int flag"
56.Ft int
57.Fn des_setkey "const char *key"
58.Ft int
59.Fn des_cipher "const char *in" "char *out" "int32_t salt" "int count"
60.Ft char *
61.Fn bcrypt_gensalt "u_int8_t log_rounds"
62.Ft char *
63.Fn bcrypt "const char *key" "const char *salt"
64.Ft char *
65.Fn md5crypt "const char *key" "const char *salt"
66.Sh DESCRIPTION
67The
68.Fn crypt
69function performs password encryption based on the
70.Tn NBS
71Data Encryption Standard (DES).
72Additional code has been added to deter key search attempts and to use
73stronger hashing algorithms.
74.Pp
75The first argument to
76.Fn crypt
77is a
78.Dv NUL Ns -terminated
79string, typically a user's typed password.
80The second is in one of three forms:
81if it begins with an underscore
82.Pq Ql _
83then an extended format is used
84in interpreting both the key and the setting, as outlined below.
85If it begins
86with a string character
87.Pq Ql $
88and a number then a different algorithm is used depending on the number.
89At the moment a
90.Ql $1
91chooses MD5 hashing and a
92.Ql $2
93chooses Blowfish hashing; see below for more information.
94.Ss Extended crypt
95The
96.Ar key
97is divided into groups of 8 characters (the last group is null-padded)
98and the low-order 7 bits of each character (56 bits per group) are
99used to form the DES key as follows:
100the first group of 56 bits becomes the initial DES key.
101For each additional group, the XOR of the encryption of the current DES
102key with itself and the group bits becomes the next DES key.
103.Pp
104The setting is a 9-character array consisting of an underscore followed
105by 4 bytes of iteration count and 4 bytes of salt.
106These are encoded as printable characters, 6 bits per character,
107least significant character first.
108The values 0 to 63 are encoded as
109.Dq \&./0-9A-Za-z .
110This allows 24 bits for both
111.Fa count
112and
113.Fa salt .
114.Ss "MD5" crypt
115For
116.Tn MD5
117crypt the version number,
118.Fa salt
119and the hashed password are separated by the
120.Ql $
121character.
122The maximum length of a password is limited by
123the length counter of the MD5 context, which is about
1242**64.
125A valid MD5 password entry looks like this:
126.Pp
127.Dq $1$caeiHQwX$hsKqOjrFRRN6K32OWkCBf1 .
128.Pp
129The whole MD5 password string is passed as
130.Fa setting
131for interpretation.
132.Ss "Blowfish" crypt
133The
134.Tn Blowfish
135version of crypt has 128 bits of
136.Fa salt
137in order to make building dictionaries of common passwords space consuming.
138The initial state of the
139.Tn Blowfish
140cipher is expanded using the
141.Fa salt
142and the
143.Fa password
144repeating the process a variable number of rounds, which is encoded in
145the password string.
146The maximum password length is 72.
147The final Blowfish password entry is created by encrypting the string
148.Pp
149.Dq OrpheanBeholderScryDoubt
150.Pp
151with the
152.Tn Blowfish
153state 64 times.
154.Pp
155The version number, the logarithm of the number of rounds and
156the concatenation of salt and hashed password are separated by the
157.Ql $
158character.
159An encoded
160.Sq 8
161would specify 256 rounds.
162A valid Blowfish password looks like this:
163.Pp
164.Dq $2a$12$eIAq8PR8sIUnJ1HaohxX2O9x9Qlm2vK97LJ5dsXdmB.eXF42qjchC .
165.Pp
166The whole Blowfish password string is passed as
167.Fa setting
168for interpretation.
169.Ss "Traditional" crypt
170The first 8 bytes of the key are null-padded, and the low-order 7 bits of
171each character is used to form the 56-bit
172.Tn DES
173key.
174.Pp
175The setting is a 2-character array of the ASCII-encoded salt.
176Thus only 12 bits of
177.Fa salt
178are used.
179.Fa count
180is set to 25.
181.Ss DES Algorithm
182The
183.Fa salt
184introduces disorder in the
185.Tn DES
186algorithm in one of 16777216 or 4096 possible ways
187(i.e., with 24 or 12 bits: if bit
188.Em i
189of the
190.Ar salt
191is set, then bits
192.Em i
193and
194.Em i+24
195are swapped in the
196.Tn DES
197E-box output).
198.Pp
199The DES key is used to encrypt a 64-bit constant using
200.Ar count
201iterations of
202.Tn DES .
203The value returned is a
204.Dv NUL Ns -terminated
205string, 20 or 13 bytes (plus NUL) in length, consisting of the
206.Ar setting
207followed by the encoded 64-bit encryption.
208.Pp
209The functions
210.Fn encrypt ,
211.Fn setkey ,
212.Fn des_setkey ,
213and
214.Fn des_cipher
215provide access to the
216.Tn DES
217algorithm itself.
218.Fn setkey
219is passed a 64-byte array of binary values (numeric 0 or 1).
220A 56-bit key is extracted from this array by dividing the
221array into groups of 8, and ignoring the last bit in each group.
222That bit is reserved for a byte parity check by DES, but is ignored
223by these functions.
224.Pp
225The
226.Fa block
227argument to
228.Fn encrypt
229is also a 64-byte array of binary values.
230If the value of
231.Fa flag
232is 0,
233.Fa block
234is encrypted otherwise it is decrypted.
235The result is returned in the original array
236.Fa block
237after using the key specified by
238.Fn setkey
239to process it.
240.Pp
241The argument to
242.Fn des_setkey
243is a character array of length 8.
244The least significant bit (the parity bit) in each character is ignored,
245and the remaining bits are concatenated to form a 56-bit key.
246The function
247.Fn des_cipher
248encrypts (or decrypts if
249.Fa count
250is negative) the 64-bits stored in the 8 characters at
251.Fa in
252using
253.Xr abs 3
254of
255.Fa count
256iterations of
257.Tn DES
258and stores the 64-bit result in the 8 characters at
259.Fa out
260(which may be the same as
261.Fa in ) .
262The
263.Fa salt
264specifies perturbations to the
265.Tn DES
266E-box output as described above.
267.Pp
268The
269.Fn crypt ,
270.Fn setkey ,
271and
272.Fn des_setkey
273functions all manipulate the same key space.
274.Sh RETURN VALUES
275The function
276.Fn crypt
277returns a pointer to the encrypted value on success, and
278.Dv NULL
279on failure.
280The functions
281.Fn setkey ,
282.Fn encrypt ,
283.Fn des_setkey ,
284and
285.Fn des_cipher
286return 0 on success and 1 on failure.
287.Sh SEE ALSO
288.Xr login 1 ,
289.Xr passwd 1 ,
290.Xr blowfish 3 ,
291.Xr getpass 3 ,
292.Xr md5 3 ,
293.Xr passwd 5
294.Sh HISTORY
295A rotor-based
296.Fn crypt
297function appeared in
298.At v3 .
299The current style
300.Fn crypt
301first appeared in
302.At v7 .
303.Pp
304This library (FreeSec 1.0) was developed outside the United States of America
305as an unencumbered replacement for the U.S.-only libcrypt encryption
306library.
307Programs linked against the
308.Fn crypt
309interface may be exported from the U.S.A. only if they use
310.Fn crypt
311solely for authentication purposes and avoid use of
312the other programmer interfaces listed above.
313Special care has been taken
314in the library so that programs which only use the
315.Fn crypt
316interface do not pull in the other components.
317.Sh AUTHORS
318.An David Burren Aq davidb@werj.com.au
319.Sh BUGS
320The
321.Fn crypt
322function returns a pointer to static data, and subsequent calls to
323.Fn crypt
324will modify the same object.