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You don't actually need the key to read the files. The Enigma variant used by the old Unix crypt program is so weak that it can be easily broken. The program I have seen to do this is Crypt Breaker's Workbench, available from ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/crypt/analysis/cbw.tar.gz.
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