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From: blair@obdient.UUCP (Doug Blair)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Crypt() in Elm - This may be a problem!
Summary: Avoid crypt in 2.0
Keywords: crypt elm international
Message-ID: <553@obdient.UUCP>
Date: 19 Jun 88 15:54:28 GMT
References: <470@altnet.ALTOS.COM>
Organization: Obedient Software Corp, Wheaton, 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
> My suggestion is that we replace the crypt() calls with a public domain routine.
> This should be done before an offical 2.0 release. 

This is a valid point.  Many domestic sites, including those running Micrport
SysV/[AT/386] and Xenix, don't have crypt on their systems unless they
have specifically requested it from the supplier.  There was a PD crypt
clone posted to alt.sources a few weeks ago which might be adaptable and
built into ELM - or perhaps it will be sufficient to use some sort of
elementary encoding feature a la rot13.  In any event ELM should NOT
contain such an obvious system dependency.

Doug

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