removing bdes..

Ollivier Robert roberto at keltia.net
Tue Feb 10 22:06:05 UTC 2015


> Hmm, as I reminder FreeBSD motto is "tools, not policies".
> If tools work as expected -- all OK.

It is also some lines of code no one want to maintain, providing a false sense of security, what's the point?

> Deny insecure crypto algorithm? Why don't force to use stong crypto
> algorithm in all places (force disk, swap and memory encryption)?
> Deny unencrypted network connection?
> Deny unencrypted arhive?

That's besides the point, we are not here to keep old code for the sake of it, esp. Since it will be a port.  We obsolete old code all the time you know.  I'd say that uucp was more useful than bdes and we still removed it. 

Why making so big a fuss?
-- 
Ollivier Robert


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