Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!apple!vsi1!lmb
From: lmb@vicom.COM (Larry Blair)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Using crypt() in encode.c
Message-ID: <1398@vsi1.COM>
Date: 23 Jan 89 18:00:54 GMT
References: <1366@vsi1.COM> <1381@vsi1.COM> <420@ispi.UUCP>
Reply-To: lmb@vicom.COM (Larry Blair)
Organization: VICOM Systems Inc., San Jose, CA
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In article <420@ispi.UUCP> jbayer@ispi.UUCP (Jonathan Bayer) writes:
=In article <1381@vsi1.COM> lmb@vicom.COM (Larry Blair ) writes:
=>
=>o Using the crypt() call makes elm non-portable to non-US sites. [This,
=>  of course, is absurd when you consider that a DES crypt program was
=>  posted to the net.]
=
=If that is so (I apparently missed it) why not just include it in Elm
=and eliminate any system dependencies.

I tried to track it down, but I can't seem to find where it was.  It may
have been some place like alt.sources.  In any event, at this time it is
illegal to export a DES encryption program.  Btw, for anyone who wants to
write one, the Nov. '88 "Scientific American" contains a complete description
of the algorithm, along with the necessary permutation tables.

I still maintain that the use of crypt() is unecessary.  Let's, at least,
make it optional.
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Larry Blair   ames!vsi1!lmb   lmb@vicom.com