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-.TH MAKEKEY 8
-.CT 1 sa_nonmortals
-.SH NAME
-makekey \- generate encryption key
-.SH SYNOPSIS
-.B /usr/lib/makekey
-.SH DESCRIPTION
-.I Makekey
-improves the usefulness of encryption schemes depending on a key by
-increasing the amount of time required to search the key space.
-It
-reads 10 bytes from its standard input, and writes 13 bytes on its
-standard output.
-The output depends on the input in a way intended to
-be difficult to compute (i.e. to require a substantial fraction of a
-second).
-.PP
-The first eight input bytes
-(the
-.IR "input key" )
-can be arbitrary
-.SM ASCII
-characters.
-The last
-two (the
-.IR salt )
-are best chosen from the set of digits, upper- and lower-case
-letters,
-.L .
-and
-.LR / .
-The salt characters are repeated as the first two characters of the output.
-The remaining 11 output characters are chosen from the same set as the salt
-and constitute the
-.I "output key."
-.PP
-The salt is used to select one of 4096 cryptographic
-machines all based on the National Bureau of Standards
-.SM DES
-algorithm, but modified in 4096 different ways.
-Using the input key as key,
-a constant string is fed into the machine and recirculated
-a number of times.
-The 64 bits that come out are distributed into the
-66 useful key bits in the result.
-.PP
-.I Makekey
-is intended for programs, such as
-.IR crypt (1),
-that perform encryption.
-Usually its input and output will be pipes.
-.SH SEE ALSO
-.IR crypt (1)