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- From: pcl@ox.ac.uk (Paul C Leyland)
- Newsgroups: comp.security.misc
- Subject: Re: Why doesn't Sun provide the Crypt program in their OS?
- Message-ID: <PCL.93Jan22151022@rhodium.ox.ac.uk>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 15:10:22 GMT
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- In-reply-to: pleticha@casc.math.uh.edu's message of 20 Jan 93 14:42:34 GMT
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- In article <1jjocqINNn4i@menudo.uh.edu> pleticha@casc.math.uh.edu (Dennis Pleticha) writes:
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- I've been trying to find out why I can't get the crypt application
- directly from Sun for months now. All I want to do is encrypt a file
- with a password for safe keeping and transmitting over unsecure
- networks. The libraries are there and I suppose I could write a
- program to do it, and even the Sun man page talks about the application
- but where the hell is the damn thing? Sorry, but it seems like such
- a simple thing to ask of a vendor that I've lost all my patience.
-
- I could send you one if you weren't in the US. Unfortunately, your
- government's ITAR silliness forbids you to import them without a license.
-
- (At last, I get my own back!!! 8-)
-
- Sorry.
-
-
- Paul
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