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Date:      Sat, 14 Aug 1999 12:06:40 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@hub.freebsd.org>
To:        Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee>
Cc:        Dave Walton <walton@nordicrecords.com>, Nick Sayer <nsayer@FreeBSD.ORG>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Whither makefiles for src/crypto/telnet/* ?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.9908141201230.45940-100000@hub.freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990814213455.19879I-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee>

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On Sat, 14 Aug 1999, Narvi wrote:

> > I got started on this, to the extent of storing the SRP data in the passwd
> > file as an additional password crypt() method (using my modified libcrypt
> > - see http://www.physics.adelaide.edu.au/~kkennawa/crypt-990725.tar.gz),
> > but ran out of time. I hope to be able to work on it again in a few weeks
> > once I get my computer back, now that I'm in the US.
> > 
> 
> Now taht you are in the US, you have to give it up (until you aren't) or
> keep a separate versions and describe to others in broad terms what you
> did to it.
> 
> You can't save it back there, 'cause that would be exporting 8-)

SRP and libcrypt are authentication systems, not data encryption - some
of the modules, like DES or Blowfish password encryption make use of
libraries which contain general-purpose (reversible) encryption, but my
code does not link directly to such cryptographic libraries. The version
I left behind in australia contains those modules, so Mark Murray or
someone else could easily keep them in sync with any API changes to the
main library.

As far as I was aware (and I'll recheck the reference to this in _The
Electronic Privacy Papers_ by Schneier tonight) authentication systems
were exempted from restrictions some years ago.

Kris



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