UNIX-like crypt function

[Bill Venables]

In article <10793 at smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn at brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn) writes:
> In article <17369 at ut-emx.UUCP> nghiem at walt.cc.utexas.edu (Alex Nghiem) writes:
>>Didn't I read somewhere that Unix encryption was restricted to
>>U.S.A. and not for export? What happens if the function gets
>>in the "wrong" hands through the network?
>
> Nothing happens.  The UNIX crypt routines (all of them) have long been
> in the "wrong hands".
[...]

 Let me confirm (although noone seems to doubt it) that the crypt() facility
 is not available on UNIX machines in Australia, and I must say I find this
 circumstance, although petty, a rather gratuitous insult from Uncle Sam.

 wnv.
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