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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!mcsun!uknet!edcastle!aiai!richard From: richard@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: Need a replacement for *crypt(key,salt) Message-ID: <6953@skye.ed.ac.uk> Date: 15 Jul 92 14:53:15 GMT References: <1992Jul15.145425.9377@waikato.ac.nz> <9207151251.AA01257@GRANNY.CS.NYU.EDU> Organization: Templi Resurgentes Equites Synarchici Lines: 16 In article <9207151251.AA01257@GRANNY.CS.NYU.EDU> m-jk8594@GRANNY.CS.NYU.EDU (James Kyriannis) writes: >Portable, eh? Like for running under MS-DOS?? What version of BSD are >you running that lacks crypt? Please don't waste bandwidth by requesting >source code for 'crypt' to allow you hack UNIX passwords at home. 386BSD doesn't include crypt. Exporting implementations of the DES algorithm from the US requires a license. Assuming that others have dishonest motives for their postings reflects more on you than them. -- Richard -- Richard Tobin, AI Applications Institute, R.Tobin@ed.ac.uk Edinburgh University.