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PSET2, crack.c Did this problem fall out of the sky from week 115? Am I overthinking this?

Crack is a 'more comfortable' problem, so it assumes that you have programming experience and that you have a knowledge of arrays, strings, loops, etc. If you don't consider yourself in the 'more com …
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Basic use of crypt in crack.c? (Hash "ROLF")

Unfortunately, there was a typo in the spec. The first example given was correct: ./crack 50fkUxYHbnXGw rofl but when repeated later in the spec, it showed ROFL in error. This has been correc …
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My crack code works for rofl but not for all

You don't appear to be handling passwords that are fewer than 4 chars. edited to add example You have 4 nested loops. Each one sets the value of the char but later chars in the string are not reset, …
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crack.c: error: implicit declaration of function 'crypt' is invalid in C99

The spec is perfectly correct. More than likely, you don't have #define _XOPEN_SOURCE #include <unistd.h> At the very top of your program (ie, before any other #includes). If you move that to th …
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pset2 crack: Takes too long

Keep in mind that a "string" in C is simply a character array that is null terminated. As such, your salt variable is not a string, nor is your temp variable in all cases. As a consequence, when you …
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