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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!news.uoregon.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.mathworks.com!newsgate.duke.edu!news.eff.org!sed.psrw.com!psinntp !psinntp!psinntp!usenet2.news.uk.psi.net!uknet!usenet1.news.uk.psi.net!uknet!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!prds-grn.demon.co.uk!prds-grn!t.d.g.sandford From: t.d.g.sandford@prds-grn.demon.co.uk (Thomas D.G. Sandford) Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc Subject: Re: DES worses MD5 password file Followup-To: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc Date: 3 Jul 1996 10:37:28 GMT Organization: Paradise Green Technical Services Lines: 19 Message-ID: <4rdih8$1rl@prds-grn.demon.co.uk> References: <4qhuas$m6o@news.idt.net> <4qtqme$h3k@innocence.interface-business.de> <DtvIvo.57@ora.de> <4r9eba$pq9@helena.MT.net> <4radmi$ddk@luva.lb.bawue.de> <31D9A99F.3B1D918B@lambert.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.demon.co.uk X-NNTP-Posting-Host: prds-grn.demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.admin:44461 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:4227 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:22789 comp.unix.bsd.misc:1207 Terry Lambert (terry@lambert.org) wrote: : Michael Giegerich wrote: : ] Out of curiosity I once asked BSDI why they could export crypt.c : ] when others wouldn't. : ] They answered that under certain circumstances it's legal. Some- : ] thing like "it's allowed if you pack the code into programs that : ] don't allow en/decryption of arbitrary files" - as for example : ] DES en/decryption of passwords. : ] What's not allowed is to export utilities like bdes - and in fact : ] those are missing from the distribution. : And an export license is still required. And I need an export licence to send crypt.c based code *back* to the USA. Crazy or what? -- Thomas Sandford | t.d.g.sandford@prds-grn.demon.co.uk Paradise Green Technical Services: S'ware/Hw design and Theatre Tech. Services