Most likely because it uses some kind of regular DES which isn't strong enough 
to fall under
export controls.

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 passwd 
> in non-US too ?
>
> Bye,
> sami
>
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