svn commit: r313329 - in head: bin/ed secure/usr.bin secure/usr.bin/bdes usr.bin usr.bin/enigma

[Allan Jude]

On 02/06/17 10:18 AM, Ed Schouten wrote:
> Hi Allan,
> 
> 2017-02-06 9:27 GMT+01:00 Allan Jude <allanjude at freebsd.org>:
>>   The use of DES for anything is discouraged, especially with a static IV of 0
> 
> Not entirely related to this, but still...
> 
> Do we want to go ahead and also remove DES support from crypt(3)?
> Compared to the other crypt formats, the DES implementation seems
> fairly large, uses global state, etc.
> 
> I can send out a change for code review if people {like,don't object to} this.
> 

I remember in the 4.x days, there was a documented reason why you might
need to keep des crypt(3) instead of using md5crypt, but I would hope
that went away a long time ago.

I am in favour of this, but I don't know what all of the implications
might be.

We should likely ask someone on secteam@ about this.

-- 
Allan Jude