The UnixCrypt component is the ultra fast crypt implementation for Delphi/C++ Builder. It works exactly as crypt(key, salt) Unix comand (one-way encryption algorithm), which used to encrypt passwords in .htpasswd files in password protected Web directories.


Description
UnixCrypt is the password encryption component. It is based on the Data Encryption Standard algorythm with variations intended (among other things) to discourage use of hardware implementations of a key search.

Key property is a user's typed password. Salt is a two characters string chosen from the set [a-zA-Z0-9./]. This string is used to perturb the algo-encrypt repeatedly a constant string (usually a string consisting of all zeros).

The returned value (Result property) is the encrypted password, a series of 13 printable ASCII characters (the first two characters represent the salt itsef).