BSD Ports

wip/ccrypt 1.10 NetBSD

Encrypts/decrypts files using Rijndael block cipher

System
NetBSD
Repository
pkgsrc-wip
Maintainer
[email protected]
License
gnu-gpl-v2
Categories
wip, security

Description

ccrypt is a utility for encrypting and decrypting files and streams. It was designed to replace the standard unix crypt utility, which is notorious for using a very weak encryption algorithm. ccrypt is based on the Rijndael block cipher, which was also chosen by the U.S. government as the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES, see http://www.nist.gov/aes/). This cipher is believed to pro- vide very strong cryptographic security.

Unlike unix crypt, the algorithm provided by ccrypt is not symmetric, i.e., one must specify whether to encrypt or decrypt. The most common way to invoke ccrypt is via the commands ccencrypt and ccdecrypt.

In the other systems

SystemPortVersion
NetBSDwip/ccrypt1.10
FreeBSDsecurity/ccrypt1.11_1
OpenBSDsecurity/ccrypt1.11p4
DragonFlysecurity/ccrypt1.11_1
HardenedBSDsecurity/ccrypt1.11_1
GhostBSDsecurity/ccrypt1.11_1

Install

From pkgsrc-wip (no binary package):

cd /usr/pkgsrc/wip/ccrypt && make install clean

Dependencies

No port depends on this one.