Date: Mon, 16 Dec 1996 18:12:56 +0200 From: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za> To: Paul Richards <p.richards@elsevier.co.uk> Cc: Bill Paul <wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu>, terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert), current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Plan for integrating Secure RPC -- comments wanted Message-ID: <199612161612.SAA22536@grackle.grondar.za>
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Paul Richards wrote: > I had a discussion with someone in the Perl group who was from ORA. He > claimed FreeBSD was being overly restrictive in it's lack of DES > code. He cited NetBSD and 4.4 claiming that both were exportable > because the DES code was only being used for authentication and not > encryption. I'm wondering if there may be some confusion at ORA due to > the fact that 4.4 has a unidirectional DES based hashing function > (which I was not aware of). I'm not sure that would be exportable > anyway, isn't it still encryption technology even if it's not used as > such. I suspect that the CD you have is exactly what is being exported > since this person stated that was what they were in fact doing. There are _two_ things called `DES': 1) contents of libdescrypt AKA libcrypt, which is the one-way hash. (AKA crypt() (3)) 2) contents of libdes. 2-way stuff. DEFINITELY unexportable. M -- Mark Murray PGP key fingerprint = 80 36 6E 40 83 D6 8A 36 This .sig is umop ap!sdn. BC 06 EA 0E 7A F2 CE CE
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