Date: Wed, 24 Jan 1996 20:56:05 -0600 (CST) From: mailing list account <lists@argus.flash.net> To: se@ZPR.Uni-Koeln.DE (Stefan Esser) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: passwd linux and FreeBSD Message-ID: <199601250256.UAA01103@argus.flash.net> In-Reply-To: <199601250023.AA21978@Sysiphos> from "Stefan Esser" at Jan 25, 96 01:23:10 am
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In reply: > Try to imagine, that by some wonderful inspiration > some person outside the US managed to write code, > that looks like DES, talks like DES, walks like DES. > > You got the picture ? > > And now he gives this code to somebody else outside > the US, without it ever going through the US. > > You can imagine that ? > > This might help you understand why the people working > on the security and encryption code in FreeBSD have > mail adresses ending in ".za" and ".au" and why the > host "ftp.internat.freebsd.org" is located in South > Africa ... I also noted the inclusion [in at least 2.1] of the libdes package. I've used this package for years, and it works great [and fast!]. kind of screwed up though that i can import that from .au, but cannot send it back, even unchanged, all i can say is that as long as we keep electing idiots... Jim -- All opinions expressed are mine, if you | "I will not be pushed, stamped, think otherwise, then go jump into turbid | briefed, debriefed, indexed, or radioactive waters and yell WAHOO !!! | numbered!" - #1, "The Prisoner" jbryant@argus.flash.net - FlashNet Communications - Ft. Worth, Texas
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