This is the crypt package Version 2.1 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 100% identical to those created by the Linux crypt(). DES, MD5, Blowfish, SHA-256, and SHA-512 algorithms are supported. Please send requests, error reports etc. to the mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com. Have fun, Corinna Vinschen