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MAKEKEY(8)                BSD System Manager's Manual               MAKEKEY(8)

NAME
     makekey -- make encrypted keys or passwords

SYNOPSIS
     makekey

DESCRIPTION
     Makekey encrypts a key and salt which it reads from the standard input, writing the result to the stan-dard standard
     dard output.  The key and salt values are expected to be ten and two bytes, respectively, in length.
     See crypt(3) for more information on what characters the key and salt can contain and how the encrypted
     value is calculated.

SEE ALSO
     crypt(1), login(1), crypt(3)

HISTORY
     A makekey command appeared in Version 7 AT&T UNIX.

BSD                            December 11, 1993                           BSD

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