[Gambas-user] CRYPT function - a little help please?

[Benoît Minisini]

Le 25/08/2017 à 11:22, Adrien Prokopowicz a écrit :
> 
> I would like to put my two cents on this subject (although,
> disclaimer : I am not a professional in security).
> 
> First of all, the documentation of gb.crypt is completely wrong. As 
> Tobias says, its methods have *nothing* to do with encryption : ...

Not my fault:

$ man crypt

CRYPT(3)

NAME
        crypt, crypt_r - password and data encryption
...

But you are right. The documentation should be updated with emphasis on 
hashing instead of encryption, and an explanation of the risks.

And SHA-1 and SHA-2 are provided too for better security.

Regards,

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Benoît Minisini