Re: Password encryption
"Jens B. Jorgensen" wrote:
>Most likely because it uses some kind of regular DES which isn't strong enou
>gh to fall under
>export controls.
Strictly, password encryption is authentication, rather than encryption,
because password encryption is one-way: you cannot decrypt a password.
>Sami Dalouche wrote:
>
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> Today, I've just realized that the passwd package uses encryption. The
>> problem is that I wonder why it's not in the non-US section.
>> Every package that uses encryption seems to be in non-US, so why isn't pas
>swd in non-US too ?
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