crypt provides a library implementing the standard encryption functions crypt(), encrypt(), and setkey(). Many programs, such as perl, rely on the presence of these functions; as the functions are not provided by the MSYS runtime, this additional library fulfils those needs. crypt also provides a command-line tool for exercising those functions. `crypt cleartext' generates an encrypted version of the cleartext using a random salt. `crypt salt cleartext' encrypts cleartext using the specified salt. Salt is a two-character string which also appears as the first two characters of the encrypted cleartext. The msys-crypt package provides the command-line utility crypt and related documentation. The associated msys-libcrypt package provides the runtime library and related development files. crypt provides a library implementing the standard encryption functions crypt(), encrypt(), and setkey(). Many programs, such as perl, rely on the presence of these functions; as the functions are not provided by the MSYS runtime, this additional library fulfils those needs. crypt also provides a command-line tool for exercising those functions. `crypt cleartext' generates an encrypted version of the cleartext using a random salt. `crypt salt cleartext' encrypts cleartext using the specified salt. Salt is a two-character string which also appears as the first two characters of the encrypted cleartext. The msys-libcrypt package provides the libcrypt runtime library and related development files. The associated msys-crypt package provides the command-line utility crypt and related documentation.