Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcsun!ukc!slxsys!ibmpcug!dylan
From: dylan@ibmpcug.co.uk (Matthew Farwell)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Unix software and USSR
Keywords: USSR BSD Unix
Message-ID: <1990Sep28.135524.20216@ibmpcug.co.uk>
Date: 28 Sep 90 13:55:24 GMT
References: <1990Sep25.145615.29488@hq.demos.su> <4113@altos86.Altos.COM> <1990Sep26.124217.918@hq.demos.su> <7745@star.cs.vu.nl> <1584@ruunsa.fys.ruu.nl> <1990Sep27.220758.1185@cti-software.nl>
Reply-To: dylan@ibmpcug.CO.UK (Matthew Farwell)
Organization: The IBM PC User Group, UK.
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In article <1990Sep27.220758.1185@cti-software.nl> pim@cti-software.nl (Pim Zandbergen) writes:
>>|#	The result should be:  XXcXimKPpq0M.            :-) :-) :-)
>>|Funny, when I compile and run this on a sun4 (or a sun3 for that matter)
>>|I get:
>>|	XX0/imINzSUs.
>>|This makes me wonder: who has got the real thing :-).
>
>>Vadim does, grrrrr. I had exactly the same result. I am in Europe too,
>>we have the modified version of the crypt routine because, as mentioned,
>>the real version may not be exported outside of the US.
>>Ridiculous isn't it?
>
>I have both the international and the (USA) domestic versions of
>the crypt library on our System V/386 machine and they both
>yield XX0/imINzSUs.
>
>The manual states the only difference between the libraries
>is that decryption is not available in the international version.
>What's the last word on this subject?

The last word is that the crypt that unix runs isn't DES. Its a modified
form of DES. What this means, effectively is that people can't build
a DES chip to try and crack passwords for unixen derived from the US,
but they can for the soviet one.

Dylan.
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