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From: dts@quad.uucp (David T. Sandberg)
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: <235@quad.uucp>
Date: 21 Aug 89 10:24:50 GMT
References: <855@eutrc3.urc.tue.nl> <2152@netcom.UUCP> <17369@ut-emx.UUCP> <3947@phri.UUCP>
Reply-To: dts@quad.uucp (David T. Sandberg)
Organization: Quadric Systems, Richfield MN
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In article <3947@phri.UUCP> roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) writes:
:In  <17369@ut-emx.UUCP> nghiem@walt.cc.utexas.edu (Alex Nghiem) writes:
:> What happens if [crypt()] gets in the "wrong" hands through the network?
:
:	The ruskies will then be able to decode all of our secret military
:transmissions, bringing about the fall of democracy as we know it today and
:subjecting the entire planet to the dominance of the evil empire.

Not to mention that the Colonel's secret fried chicken recipe would be
placed in grave danger!

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                                  David Sandberg - Quadric Systems
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