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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.xenix,comp.unix.wizards,comp.unix.ultrix,comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: UNIX-like crypt function
Keywords: crypt unix ibm-pc
Message-ID: <10793@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 21 Aug 89 19:24:47 GMT
References: <855@eutrc3.urc.tue.nl> <2152@netcom.UUCP> <17369@ut-emx.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <17369@ut-emx.UUCP> nghiem@walt.cc.utexas.edu (Alex Nghiem) writes:
>Didn't I read somewhere that Unix encryption was restricted to
>U.S.A. and not for export? What happens if the function gets
>in the "wrong" hands through the network?

Nothing happens.  The UNIX crypt routines (all of them) have long been
in the "wrong hands".  The export restriction applies to software vendors,
primarily because they haven't been able to obtain blanket export licenses
from the Commerce Dept. and the cost of doing them one at a time is
prohibitive.