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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Passing proprietary messages through competitors or other sites
Message-ID: <1990Jul25.135108.24216@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <11613@hoptoad.uucp> <118@rwing.UUCP> <1145@vision.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 90 13:51:08 GMT

In article <1145@vision.UUCP> chris@vision.UUCP (Chris Davies) writes:
>The program 'crypt' does not exist outside the US, thanks to the DoD...

Au contraire, any Unix site that was in business early on has it, at least
on an old distribution tape.  Its export was perfectly routine until certain,
uh, persons decided to get an Official Opinion on it, at which point the
doors slammed shut.

>... Thus Joe User
>has the additional hassle of writing their own crypt/decrpyt program...

There is quite a bit of crypto software, including implementations of DES
and other relatively good cryptosystems (crypt(1) was poor), in circulation
outside the US.  Only DoD thinks that us furriners are incapable of writing
crypto software ourselves.
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