[willdye] If you're looking for a way to perform the crypt function in Tcl, then the link
you want is probably [crypt in pure tcl].

[JMN] 2005-08-31 The [crypt in pure tcl] above is packaged as 'tclcrypt' in the [TclHttpd] distribution.

In the non-starkit TclHttpd distribution, there is also the much faster binary version packaged as 'crypt'.

These are also available separately here: http://vectorstream.com/tcl/packages/ 

The [trf] package also provides the crypt function, but apparently not on the Windows platform at least.

While on the general subject - beware that at least one crypt implementation (crypt.exe in Cygwin on Windows) takes its 'password & salt' arguments in the reverse order to that of the Tcl implementations mentioned above.

See [md5crypt] for a  more 'modern' method of password encryption.

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