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From: richard@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: Need a replacement for *crypt(key,salt)
Message-ID: <6953@skye.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 15 Jul 92 14:53:15 GMT
References: <1992Jul15.145425.9377@waikato.ac.nz> <9207151251.AA01257@GRANNY.CS.NYU.EDU>
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In article <9207151251.AA01257@GRANNY.CS.NYU.EDU> m-jk8594@GRANNY.CS.NYU.EDU (James Kyriannis) writes:
>Portable, eh?  Like for running under MS-DOS??  What version of BSD are
>you running that lacks crypt?  Please don't waste bandwidth by requesting
>source code for 'crypt' to allow you hack UNIX passwords at home.

386BSD doesn't include crypt.  Exporting implementations of the DES
algorithm from the US requires a license.

Assuming that others have dishonest motives for their postings reflects
more on you than them.

-- Richard
-- 
Richard Tobin,
AI Applications Institute,                                R.Tobin@ed.ac.uk
Edinburgh University.