how are password encryped?

[D'Arcy J.M. Cain]

In article <1990Nov5.185707.18709 at nntp-server.caltech.edu> gwoho at nntp-server.caltech.edu (g liu) writes:
>i cant figure out how passwords are encrypted. it does not even seem
>very deterministic: i can look in the password file, change my password,
>change it back, and look again, and it changes. how are they encrypted,
>and how can it even work if the same password encryptes differently
>2 differnt times?
>gwoho liu.
>.

Would you trust a password encryption scheme that you could figure out?
See crypt(3C) and crypt(3X) for a short discussion on DES Encryption.

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