NOCRYPT / NOSECURE

Mark Murray mark at grondar.org
Fri May 16 07:19:13 PDT 2003


"Daniel C. Sobral" writes:
> Mark Murray wrote:
> > Dag-Erling Smorgrav writes:
> > 
> >>Mark Murray <mark at grondar.org> writes:
> >>
> >>>If openssl's des(1) is the same as our bdes(1) (ie, gives the same results)
> >>>then I'm in support of this.
> >>
> >>I haven't compared OpenSSL'S des(1) directly with bdes(1), but they
> >>are both ports (or reimplementations) of Sun's des(1), and I've used
> >>OpenSSL's des(1) in the past to exchange data with Solaris users who
> >>were using Sun's des(1).
> > 
> > 
> > I've converted our bdes(1) to use the openSSL library. I've also done
> > ed(1). :-). libcipher is now OBE.
> 
> 1) What happens if I compile with no crypto (whatever it is/will be 
> called these days)?

No change.

> 2) ed(1) is /bin/ed. Won't that cause trouble?

No. Instead of not using libcipher, it won't use libcrypto. :-)

M
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