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From: mark@clout.Jhereg.MN.ORG (Mark H. Colburn)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Crypt() in Elm - This may be a problem!
Keywords: crypt elm international
Message-ID: <278@clout.Jhereg.MN.ORG>
Date: 20 Jun 88 05:06:14 GMT
References: <470@altnet.ALTOS.COM>
Reply-To: mark@clout.Jhereg.MN.ORG (Mark H. Colburn)
Organization: House Jhereg, Streamwood, IL
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In article <470@altnet.ALTOS.COM> edc@ALTOS.COM (Eric Christensen) writes:
>
>I've got an issue with the use of the crypt() routines in Elm. These routines
>are not available to anyone outside of the United States. Now, I don't know
>about anyone else, but I've got several international offices that do / want to
>use Elm.

Hmmmm.  The last time I looked, I thought that all versions of Unix
were supplied with a crypt command.  It is just that there is one
version made for use in the U.S., and another which is distributed
abroad.  Therefore there are crypt libraries on all systems, but they
may be incompatible.  Is this correct?

This would still cause a problem if you were attempting to send
crypted mail to someone who has an incompatible crypt, so I support
Eric's idea of using a PD version of crypt rather than relying on the
potentially different versions of crypt that are distributed with the
system.

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