Re: Passwd encryption

Kurt Siegl (Kurt.Siegl@risc.uni-linz.ac.at)
Fri, 27 Oct 95 09:56:54 +0100


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"Nigel.Metheringham" <nigel@theplanet.net> writes:
>While I know that there are problems with the general DES stuff
>and the US government (although there are far superior
>implementations on various non-us ftp sites), I was under the
>impression that the limited broken DES as used for the crypt()
>function was not subject to export restrictions....
>
>But then again I may be wrong, I often am....

I have at least a routine called fcrypt (Fast Crypt), which is included with
several programs, don't know if having it is leagal, but at least you may
get it also outside Europe:

The header says:

/*
* This program is copyright Alec Muffett 1991 except for some portions of
* code in "crack-fcrypt.c" which are copyright Robert Baldwin, Icarus Sparry
* and Alec Muffett. The author(s) disclaims all responsibility or liability
* with respect to it's usage or its effect upon hardware or computer
* systems, and maintain copyright as set out in the "LICENCE" document which
* accompanies distributions of Crack v4.0 and upwards.
*/

/*
* Misc defs for the fast password transform optimisations.
*/

Maybe that helps,

Kurt

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