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From: guy@rlgvax.UUCP (Guy Harris)
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Subject: Re: Xenix & crypt
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> In either case, it is ludicrous to "restrict the export" of well-known, 
> WWII technology. (especially when it deprives us REAL AMURRICANS
> of a useful utility.) 

It's especially ludicrous, considering the number of V7 and System III
systems (and probably System V and even S5R2 systems, considering the
only source distribution we got that had all this International System V
b******t was S5R2V2, and I'll bet lots of VARs sent it out with "crypt")
that have *already been sent* to foreign countries with "crypt".  I agree
with Doug Gwyn; AT&T probably figured the safest course was to chicken out.

It is amusing to note that the S5R2V2 CRYPT(3) code is pretty much identical
to earlier versions, except that all references to DES in the comments have
been replaced with references to "an encryption algorithm" or somesuch...

> "Paranoia strikes deep; into your life it will creep"
> 		--some sixties group

(Buffalo Springfield, to be precise.)

	Guy Harris
	sun!guy