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From: csgr@cs.ru.ac.za (Geoff Rehmet)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Crypt libraries
Date: 14 Aug 1994 17:49:21 GMT
Organization: Rhodes University Computing Services
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In <32kjn3$e02@neuro.usc.edu> merlin@neuro.usc.edu (merlin) writes:
>What is the current status of crypt libraries / crypt based utilities
>in 386bsd/bsd386/bsd? Has anyone reimplemented crypt (and made it part
>of the default installation) based on the new international DES code?
This is always a complicated problem, due to US export restrictions,
which everyone knows and hates very well.
For FreeBSD 1.1 and 1.1.5.1 there are two different securedist
distributions, one for consumption within the USA, and one for
international use.
This will continue to be true for FreeBSD-2.0, however, libcrypt, which
in 2.0 only exports the _crypt() symbol, and thus can only be used for
authentication, and not encryption should be exportable from the USA in
binary form only.
Geoff.
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