From: Alan Olsen <alano@teleport.com>
Date: Sun, 14 Apr 1996 09:40:08 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Is crypt(1) a prohibited export?
Message-ID: <2.2.32.19960413223409.0096bcc8@mail.teleport.com>
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At 12:31 AM 4/10/96 -0700, Chris McAuliffe wrote:

>The man page is a bit dated:
>	crypt implements a one-rotor machine designed along the lines of the
>	German Enigma, but with a 256-element rotor.  Methods of attack on
>	such machines are known, but not widely; moreover the amount of work
>	required is likely to be large.
>
>Clearly written before CBW became popular.

What they are not telling you is the "large amount of work" is to get CBW to
*compile*, not to break crypt(1).  (Crypt Breakers Workbench uses some
obsolete calls.  I do not know of an existing updated version, but that does
not mean one does not exist...)
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