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Date:      Mon, 19 Jun 1995 22:42:39 +0200
From:      Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>
To:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@freefall.cdrom.com>
Cc:        wollman@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu, rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com, current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Crypto code - an architectural proposal. 
Message-ID:  <199506192042.WAA00321@grumble.grondar.za>

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> > If the state department has a problem (or potential problem) with the
> > crypt(3) in libdescrypt, why is there _no_ problem with the MD5 crypt(3)?
> > They are functionally equivalent. Was the MD5 version even vetted?
> 
> MD5 cannot decrypt.

I thought that was the point of crypt(3). "One-way trapdoor algorithm"?

M
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