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# 1.37 17-Nov-2025 uwe

crypt(3): minor formatting tweaks


# 1.36 17-Nov-2025 jschauma

clarify some of the parameters for 'setting'; avoid talking about passing
the output of crypt(3); note that for md5 and blowfish the salt is silently
truncated if it's longer than the respectively accepted length


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# 1.35 17-Jan-2023 uwe

crypt(3): Minor markup tweaks


# 1.34 17-Jan-2023 riastradh

crypt(3): Call it password hashing, not `encrypting'.

Tidy up some of the markup while here, and be consistent about
calling the neatly formatted US-ASCII string an `encoded password
hash').


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# 1.33 20-Oct-2021 nia

crypt.3: add a reference for Argon2


# 1.32 12-Oct-2021 wiz

Capitalize word.


# 1.31 12-Oct-2021 nia

crypt.3: note parallelism caveats


# 1.30 12-Oct-2021 andvar

fix typos in man pages.


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# 1.29 21-Oct-2019 wiz

Mark up argon2 description. Restore removed lines/text from previous
commit.


# 1.28 21-Oct-2019 jhigh

adding argon2 support to libcrypt. argon2 user authentication now
available via MKARGON2=yes (3 variants supported; argon2id recommended)
before using, please read argon2 paper at
https://github.com/P-H-C/phc-winner-argon2


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# 1.27 23-Mar-2012 njoly

branches: 1.27.32;
Use major.minor for NetBSD versions.


# 1.26 01-Mar-2012 wiz

Fix punctuation markup.


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# 1.25 02-Jan-2012 wiz

Remove trailing whitespace.


# 1.24 01-Jan-2012 christos

a typo and missing markup


# 1.23 01-Jan-2012 christos

Improve returns description from Solar Designer.


# 1.22 28-Dec-2011 wiz

Remove trailing whitespace. Avoid xr to itself.


# 1.21 28-Dec-2011 christos

reflect current reality about return values.


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# 1.20 05-Sep-2005 hubertf

branches: 1.20.42;
Mention pwhash(1) in a few places,
suggested in PR 31125 by Stefan Schumacher.


# 1.19 16-Aug-2005 drochner

salt is in the second argument


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# 1.18 10-Jun-2004 uebayasi

branches: 1.18.2;
Remove a superfluous .sp in the SEE ALSO section.


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# 1.17 07-Aug-2003 agc

Move UCB-licensed code from 4-clause to 3-clause licence.

Patches provided by Joel Baker in PR 22280, verified by myself.


# 1.16 16-Apr-2003 wiz

Use
.In header.h
instead of
.Fd #include \*[Lt]header.h\*[Gt]
Much easier to read and write, and supported by groff for ages.
Okayed by ross.


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# 1.15 01-Oct-2002 wiz

New sentence, new line. From Robert Elz.


# 1.14 24-May-2002 itojun

support bcrypt password. can be chosen by "blowfish" keyword in passwd.conf.
from openbsd


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# 1.13 17-Apr-2002 wiz

branches: 1.13.2;
Change Nd argument to 'password encryption', since it does not only provide
DES support. Noted by Jeremy C. Reed.


# 1.12 20-Feb-2002 wiz

Punctuation nits.


# 1.11 07-Feb-2002 ross

Generate <>& symbolically.


# 1.10 15-Jan-2002 wiz

Whitespace nits, drop unnecessary .Pps.


# 1.9 03-Aug-2000 ad

Take a stab at documenting non-DES password encryption.


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# 1.8 16-Jun-2000 thorpej

branches: 1.8.2;
Enable decryption in crypt(), from cryptosrc-intl, and lift the updated
manual page (which describes decryption) from cryptosrc-us.


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# 1.7 02-Jul-1999 simonb

branches: 1.7.6;
More trailing white space.


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# 1.6 01-Jun-1998 kleink

Prototype has moved: add inclusion of <stdlib.h> to the synopsis of setkey().


# 1.5 05-Feb-1998 perry

add LIBRARY section to man page


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# 1.4 18-Apr-1997 mikel

hint that crypt() et. al. are declared in unistd.h; from Jon Buller in
PR lib/3488.


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# 1.3 12-Oct-1995 jtc

Manpage fixes from Jochen Pohl. Aligns the prototypes in the SYNOPSIS
section with the actual function declarations. See PR #1589 for details.


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# 1.2 19-Feb-1995 cgd

use the (broken) crypt.c from the 4.4BSD-Lite Foreign distribution, that
can encrypt passwords but _cannot_ decrypt anything. "real" (i.e. two-way,
unbroken) crypt() now lives in /usr/src/domestic.


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# 1.1 07-Oct-1993 cgd

always create libcrypt, and link with it where necessary. this will
make life with shared libraries happier. also, get dummy crypt out
of libc.