Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!ames!netsys!vector!chip
From: chip@vector.UUCP (Chip Rosenthal)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: crypt
Message-ID: <661@vector.UUCP>
Date: 14 Dec 88 19:21:07 GMT
References: <1238@amelia.nas.nasa.gov> <83@genat.UUCP> <509@acadch.UUCP>
Reply-To: chip@vector.UUCP (Chip Rosenthal)
Organization: Dallas Semiconductor
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In article <509@acadch.UUCP> rudolf@curano.UUCP (Rudolf Kuenzli) writes:
>What I never will understand is the fact that DES has been described officially
>and everybody in this world may obtain a copy of it.

The issue here isn't reason or logic, it is government bureaucracy.  DES is
a controlled item for export.  Therefore your choice is either fight the
bureaucracy or don't.  Unbundling crypt allows SCO to take the second route.
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Chip Rosenthal     chip@vector.UUCP    |      Choke me in the shallow water
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