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DES_CRYPT(3)	       FreeBSD Library Functions Manual		  DES_CRYPT(3)

NAME
     des_crypt,	ecb_crypt, cbc_crypt, des_setparity -- fast DES	encryption

LIBRARY
     Standard C	Library	(libc, -lc)

SYNOPSIS
     #include <rpc/des_crypt.h>

     int
     ecb_crypt(char *key, char *data, unsigned datalen,	unsigned mode);

     int
     cbc_crypt(char *key, char *data, unsigned datalen,	unsigned mode,
	 char *ivec);

     void
     des_setparity(char	*key);

DESCRIPTION
     The ecb_crypt() and cbc_crypt() functions implement the NBS DES (Data En-
     cryption Standard).  These	routines are faster and	more general purpose
     than crypt(3).  They also are able	to utilize DES hardware	if it is
     available.	 The ecb_crypt() function encrypts in ECB (Electronic Code
     Book) mode, which encrypts	blocks of data independently.  The cbc_crypt()
     function encrypts in CBC (Cipher Block Chaining) mode, which chains to-
     gether successive blocks.	CBC mode protects against insertions, dele-
     tions and substitutions of	blocks.	 Also, regularities in the clear text
     will not appear in	the cipher text.

     Here is how to use	these routines.	 The first argument, key, is the
     8-byte encryption key with	parity.	 To set	the key's parity, which	for
     DES is in the low bit of each byte, use des_setparity().  The second ar-
     gument, data, contains the	data to	be encrypted or	decrypted.  The	third
     argument, datalen,	is the length in bytes of data,	which must be a	multi-
     ple of 8.	The fourth argument, mode, is formed by	OR'ing together	some
     things.  For the encryption direction OR in either	DES_ENCRYPT or
     DES_DECRYPT.  For software	versus hardware	encryption, OR in either
     DES_HW or DES_SW.	If DES_HW is specified,	and there is no	hardware, then
     the encryption is performed in software and the routine returns
     DESERR_NOHWDEVICE.	 For cbc_crypt(), the ivec argument is the 8-byte ini-
     tialization vector	for the	chaining.  It is updated to the	next initial-
     ization vector upon return.

ERRORS
     [DESERR_NONE]	  No error.
     [DESERR_NOHWDEVICE]  Encryption succeeded,	but done in software instead
			  of the requested hardware.
     [DESERR_HWERROR]	  An error occurred in the hardware or driver.
     [DESERR_BADPARAM]	  Bad argument to routine.

     Given a result status stat, the macro DES_FAILED(stat) is false only for
     the first two statuses.

SEE ALSO
     crypt(3)

RESTRICTIONS
     These routines are	not available in RPCSRC	4.0.  This information is pro-
     vided to describe the DES interface expected by Secure RPC.

FreeBSD	13.0			October	6, 1987			  FreeBSD 13.0

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