[FWP] crypt() fun

[Jeff Pinyan <jeffp@crusoe.net>]

I'm searching for a 13-character string that, when crypt()ed upon itself,
returns itself.  Has anyone come across such a string in their affairs
with Perl?  It may not even exist.

I'm not sure my sysadmin would be thrilled if I ran a program that did

  @chars = ('a' .. 'z', 'A' .. 'Z', 0 .. 9, '/', '.');
  for $a (@chars) {
    for $b (@chars) {
      # later...
        for $l (@chars) {
          for $m (@chars) {
            $word = "$a$b$c$d$e$f$g$h$i$j$k$l$m";
            print $word if $word eq crypt($word,$word);
          }
        }
      # ...
    }
  }

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