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From: jms@tardis.Tymnet.COM (Joe Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.compression
Subject: Re: No encryption on Sun4's
Summary: That is a licensing concern.
Message-ID: <1715@tardis.Tymnet.COM>
Date: 12 Apr 91 23:03:44 GMT
References: <.!ggrc#@rpi.edu>
Reply-To: jms@tardis.Tymnet.COM (Joe Smith)
Followup-To: alt.sys.sun
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In article <.!ggrc#@rpi.edu> nautilus@joe.math.rpi.edu (John M Twilley) writes:
>... of all the SunOS machines RPI has, only the Sun3's have des and crypt.
>I have informed the system administrators, and it will be fixed.
>I was wondering if anyone else out there suffered this dilemma.

It is not a dilemma, it just a software licensing issue.  And it is not
a Sun3 vs Sun4 problem either.  The standard software distribution of
SunOS version 4.1 and higher are identical for U.S. and non U.S. customers;
the DES encryption software is not included.  U.S. customers who need
this functionality have to order an additional tape from Sun.

I don't understand why this was posted to comp.compression, I have set
followups to go to alt.sys.sun.

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