cuccia@monet.Berkeley.EDU (Nick Cuccia) (10/30/86)
4.3BSD exists in two separate versions, one with DES for domestic consumption, the other without it for foreign consumption. A serious pain in the neck for all involved. _Numerical Recipes_ is the name of a book published by Cambridge University Press in England. Along with all sorts of numerical goodies for almost anything you want to do, it has implementations of DES in both FORTRAN77 and Pascal. the publishers also sell PC-compatible diskettes of all the software in the books. Finally, one of the major encryption algorithms (I forget if it was DES or RSA) was first presented at a cryptography conference in Poland. So what's the big deal, since half the world knows this stuff anyways? --Nick