Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!samsung!munnari.oz.au!uhccux!newsfeed!steve From: steve@apollo.cfht.hawaii.edu (Steven Smith) Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp Subject: crypt BS? Message-ID: Date: 31 Jul 90 01:34:05 GMT Sender: news@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu Distribution: comp Organization: Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Corp. Lines: 28 So why does running the crypt command produce the following message: "This command is not available."? Yes, I read the FM, and it lamely proclaims: "The decryption facilities provided by this software are under control of the United States Government and cannot be exported without special licenses. These capabilities are only available by special arrangement through HP." What kind of chowder-headed BS is this? It's not like the commies couldn't have gotten it 57 zillion time in the past. (And still can from a "standard" Unix implementation, read SunOS) Let alone the fact that there are DES algorithms (and *code*) floating around ?! Just how am I supposed to keep my prying sysadm from reading all my files? (nevermind that he is me). Or decrypt all those things I crypted with an earlier version of the OS? Is this only happening to me because I work at Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Corp (a non-profit US company, with a foreign sounding name)? snarl, (but not at you ;-) steve -- Steven S. Smith Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Corp. steve@cfht.hawaii.edu