NAME

encrypt — encoding function (CRYPT)

SYNOPSIS

[OB XSI] #include <unistd.h>

void encrypt(char block[64], int edflag);

DESCRIPTION

The encrypt() function shall provide access to an implementation-defined encoding algorithm. The key generated by setkey() is used to encrypt the string block with encrypt().

The block argument to encrypt() shall be an array of length 64 bytes containing only the bytes with values of 0 and 1. The array is modified in place to a similar array using the key set by setkey(). If edflag is 0, the argument is encoded. If edflag is 1, the argument may be decoded (see the APPLICATION USAGE section); if the argument is not decoded, errno shall be set to [ENOSYS].

The encrypt() function shall not change the setting of errno if successful. An application wishing to check for error situations should set errno to 0 before calling encrypt(). If errno is non-zero on return, an error has occurred.

The encrypt() function need not be thread-safe.

RETURN VALUE

The encrypt() function shall not return a value.

ERRORS

The encrypt() function shall fail if:

[ENOSYS]

The functionality is not supported on this implementation.

EXAMPLES

None.

APPLICATION USAGE

The encrypt() function historically used the DES block cipher, which is no longer considered secure.

In some environments, decoding might not be implemented. This is related to some Government restrictions on encryption and decryption routines. Historical practice has been to ship a different version of the encryption library without the decryption feature in the routines supplied. Thus the exported version of encrypt() does encoding but not decoding.

RATIONALE

None.

FUTURE DIRECTIONS

The encrypt() function may be removed in a future version.

SEE ALSO

crypt, setkey

XBD <unistd.h>

CHANGE HISTORY

First released in Issue 1. Derived from Issue 1 of the SVID.

Issue 5

A note indicating that this function need not be reentrant is added to the DESCRIPTION.

Issue 6

In the DESCRIPTION, the note about reentrancy is expanded to cover thread-safety.

Issue 7

Austin Group Interpretation 1003.1-2001 #156 is applied.

POSIX.1-2008, Technical Corrigendum 2, XSH/TC2-2008/0085 [899] is applied.

Issue 8

Austin Group Defect 1192 is applied, marking the encrypt() function as obsolescent.