Encrypting a string value

[Florian Diesch]

Ray Parrish <crp at cmc.net> writes:

> I am writing yet another script, and I would like to know if there are 
> any bash commands, or installable binaries that will encrypt and decrypt 
> a text string.

For simple substitution ciphers you can use tr.
To use crypt(3) (which is used to encrypt the password in /etc/shadow)
there is mkpasswd (part of the whois package).


   Florian
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