According to Theo de Raadt:
>
>Yes, you can have a crippled but usable system without it.  For some,
>the lack of proper crypt support in their system can be a problem.
>

Yes it can be a problem but you can just drop a freely available crypt
replacement in place of the "real" one.  I believe that Giles Lean did
put an unencumbered version into the source tree he is propagating via
CTM (I hope my memory serves me correctly here :-)

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Brett Lymn, Computer Systems Administrator, AWA Defence Industries
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