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From: mycroft@zygorthian-space-raiders.mit.edu (Charles M. Hannum)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc
Subject: Re: DES worses MD5 password file
Date: 07 Jul 1996 18:59:14 -0400
Organization: Massachvsetts Institvte of Technology
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nate@trout.mt.sri.com (Nate Williams) writes:

> 
> In article <DtvIvo.57@ora.de>, Christoph Badura <bad@ora.de> wrote:
> >
> >Where is the problem with the government?  Perhaps you didn't notice that
> >the international version of the 4.4-lite CD-ROM includes source for
> >the password DES function.
> 
> If so it's an error since it's *NOT* supposed do.

Wrong.  There is a special `foreign' version of crypt.c in 4.4-Lite
that does not support decryption.  This is what NetBSD uses.

> Then you don't know very well, since both BSDi and NetBSD don't export
> their DES password encryption.  (At least on purpose)

Wrong again.