crypt() doesn't really encrypt, it hashes or digests. Yet perlfunc/crypt talks about encryption. This seems misleading. I discovered this while explaining that passwords aren't stored encrypted, they are hashed. This not-encryption is done with the crypt() function--erk.
So I think it makes sense for the crypt docs to stop saying it encrypts. I'm no expert in cryptographic terminology, can anyone confirm or verify this? -- Michael G Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~schwern You are wicked and wrong to have broken inside and peeked at the implementation and then relied upon it. -- tchrist in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
