Is crypt(1) a prohibited export?

Dan Busarow dan at dpcsys.com
Sun Apr 14 05:16:42 PDT 1996


On Sat, 13 Apr 1996, Jeremey Barrett wrote:

> crypt() is a hash function, and hence is not subject to export restriction.
> (To my knowledge).

SCO (and Novell, when it was selling Unix) both shipped libcrypt.a as a 
seperate product in their development systems.  Only US and Canadian 
customers are allowed to buy the library.  Programs statically compiled
with libcrypt appear to be OK, but furineers can't have API access to
this technology :)

Dan
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