bool "Use internal DES and MD5 crypt functions rather than system functions"
default y
help
- If you leave this disabled, busybox will use the system's password
- and group functions. Most C libraries use large (~70k)
+ If you leave this disabled, busybox will use the system's
+ crypt functions. Most C libraries use large (~70k)
static buffers in these functions, and also combine them
with more general DES encryption/decryption routines.
For busybox, having large static buffers is undesirable,
- especially so on NOMMU machines.
+ especially on NOMMU machines.
These functions produce results which are identical
to corresponding C library functions.