Summary -- Decrypting Files Encrypted on Another Machine

[Rock Kent]

Several of you responded to my previous posting on this subject
<198 at rancho.uucp>, in which I stated:

	I have been unsuccessful in taking files which
	have been encrypted on an NCR Tower using crypt(1)
	and decrypting them on a microport Sys V/386
	system.  I have successfully decrypted the files
	on the Tower which were originally encrypted on
	the Tower.  I have successfully decrypted the
	files on the V/386 machine which were originally
	encrypted on the V/386 machine.  

Thank you for your comments and suggestions.  In response to some
of your suggestions, I compared the encrypted files before and
after transfer and they were identical byte-for-byte.  Thus, dd
with conv=swab, while a good solution, wasn't appropriate for this
problem. 

Several of you suggested internal problems may exist with the way
the integers are handled in the crypt.  That leads me to believe
that the Microport version of crypt is non-standard . . . perhaps
a version written for sys V/AT and ported to V/386 with small
integers?? 

In any event, I'm now looking for a public domain implementation
of crypt to install on my machine.  I would appreciate email info
on the availability of such a beast.  Is the crypt.cc posted a
while ago by Philip Peake (philip at axis.uucp) something that could
be simply converted into crypt(1)?

Thanks again for your help.

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