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From: wvenable@spam.ua.oz (Bill Venables)
Newsgroups: 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
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Date: 22 Aug 89 23:31:20 GMT
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In article <10793@smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn) writes:
> 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".
[...]

 Let me confirm (although noone seems to doubt it) that the crypt() facility
 is not available on UNIX machines in Australia, and I must say I find this
 circumstance, although petty, a rather gratuitous insult from Uncle Sam.

 wnv.
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