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[PATCH crypt 7/8] Update README


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 crypt.README | 38 ++++----------------------------------
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 34 deletions(-)

diff --git a/crypt.README b/crypt.README
index d7ee763..336737e 100644
--- a/crypt.README
+++ b/crypt.README
@@ -1,46 +1,16 @@
-This is the DES-crypt package Version 1.1
+This is the crypt package Version 2.0
 
 It provides a static library libcrypt.a as well as a shared library
 cygcrypt-0.dll together with a link lib libcrypt.dll.a, which export
 the functions
 
         crypt(3)
+        crypt_r(3)
         encrypt(3)
         setkey(3)
 
-The passwords created by crypt(3) are 56 bit DES encrypted and are
-100% identical to those created by the Linux crypt().
-
-Additionally, this package provides a command line tool crypt.exe 
-which is a tool to generate encrypted passwords from cleartext
-passwords.  The encrypted password is written to stdout with a trailing
-line feed. 
-
-Use this tool to create password entries in /etc/passwd on 9x systems. 
-On 9x machines, this DES password authentication is used in applications
-like e. g. login(1) or ftpd(8).  Note that the password entry in
-/etc/passwd is not used on NT systems.  Instead, users are authenticated
-using the NT password itself.  So crypt.exe is mainly a convenience for
-9x users.
-
-Note that this tool does *not* provide the crypt(1) functionality known
-from e. g. SUN Solaris(tm) machines.  The encryption used here is
-incompatible with the encryption used there.
-
-The usage of "our" crypt is like this:
-
-crypt cleartext
-
-    generates a password with a random salt.
-
-crypt salt cleartext
-
-    generates a password with salt `salt'.  The result can be used to
-    compare a given encrypted password with a cleartext password eg.
-    typed by a user.
-
-The salt is a two character string which consists of the first two
-characters of the encrypted password.
+The passwords created by crypt(3) are 100% identical to those created by 
+the Linux crypt().  DES, MD5, SHA-256, and SHA-512 algorithms are supported.
 
 Please send requests, error reports etc. to the mailing list
 cygwin@cygwin.com.
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