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From: erc@unislc.uucp (Ed Carp)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: Need a replacement for *crypt(key,salt)
Message-ID: <1992Jul16.181012.6557@unislc.uucp>
Date: 16 Jul 92 18:10:12 GMT
Article-I.D.: unislc.1992Jul16.181012.6557
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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.

crypt (as well as DES) is available from a number of ftp sites around the
world.  How can there be export controls on DES if there are so many PD
implementations on so many ftp sites?
-- 
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