On Thu, 20 Apr 2000, Matt Sergeant wrote:
> Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 09:11:00 +0100 (BST)
> From: Matt Sergeant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Gunther Birznieks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: crypt() under windows
>
> On Thu, 20 Apr 2000, Gunther Birznieks wrote:
>
> > At 09:00 PM 4/19/00 +0100, Matt Sergeant wrote:
> > >On Wed, 19 Apr 2000, Tim Bishop wrote:
> > >
> > > >
> > > > Hi-
> > > >
> > > > We used Martin Vorlaender's Crypt::UnixCrypt module for the same reason
> > > > you need it - no crypt() on Windows.
> > >
> > >Nonesense. Read README.win32 before building your perl.
> >
> > Curiously, the precompiled Win32 ModPerl that perl.apache.org references
> > for people to download does not have crypt() compiled in. Yet ActiveState's
> > binary distribution of build 522 does. Odd.
> >
> > Is there a reason that the source distributions default build would be
> > different from ActiveState's default build?
>
> It was compiled in the US. ActiveState is a Canadian company so can
> distribute crypt(). Someone should probably do a later build of the whole
> shebang anyway about now - volunteers? (preferrably from outside the US?)
During the QNX crypt fiasco, I heard that the export restrictions
didn't apply to hashing functions.
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