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Date:      Mon, 19 Jun 1995 16:28:30 -0400
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu>
To:        Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>
Cc:        Garrett Wollman <wollman@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu>, "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>, current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Crypto code - an architectural proposal. 
Message-ID:  <9506192028.AA09361@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199506192012.WAA00163@grumble.grondar.za>
References:  <199506192012.WAA00163@grumble.grondar.za>

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<<On Mon, 19 Jun 1995 22:12:26 +0200, Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za> said:

> 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?

Because the libdescrypt version is implemented by calling a whacked-up
version of DES, whereas MD5 was designed from the start to be
exportable.

-GAWollman

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