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From: trt@rti.UUCP (Thomas Truscott)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: UNIX-like crypt function
Keywords: crypt unix ibm-pc
Message-ID: <3148@rti.UUCP>
Date: 24 Aug 89 02:21:10 GMT
References: <855@eutrc3.urc.tue.nl> <2152@netcom.UUCP> <17369@ut-emx.UUCP> <605@targon.UUCP>
Organization: Research Triangle Institute, RTP, NC
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In article <605@targon.UUCP>, ruud@targon.UUCP (Ruud Harmsen) writes:
> In article <164@spam.ua.oz> wvenable@spam.oz.au (Bill Venables) writes:
> crypt(3) is available on all UNIXes (though not as source), crypt(1) is not.

... and this is particularly amusing since crypt(3) uses a powerful encryption
method (DES) whereas crypt(1) uses a much simpler and weaker method.

But "they" have spoken.  crypt(1) must not escape from the USA.
Of course people within the USA are permitted to use it.
People outside the USA will have to be content with reading
the 1984 AT&T Bell Laboratories Technical Journal which explains
how to break the encryption!
	Tom Truscott