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Date:      Tue, 20 Jun 1995 19:34:02 +0200
From:      Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>
To:        "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>
Cc:        wollman@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman), mark@grondar.za, gibbs@freefall.cdrom.com, current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: The great crypt reshuffle 
Message-ID:  <199506201734.TAA02834@grumble.grondar.za>

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> > 
> > <<On Tue, 20 Jun 1995 16:57:22 +0200, Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za> said:
> > 
> > > 5) secure/usr.bin/telnet is kerberised, and as such should move to
> > >    eBones.
> > 
> > NO!  As I said before, `telnet' is just like `rsh', `rlogin', and
> > `rcp': there is a Kerberized version in the regular /usr/src.  The
> > version in /usr/src/secure is there because it can do encryption in
> > addition to authentication.
> 
> AHH!!  Okay, right, now I remeber, the secure/usr.bin/telnet/* files are
> all the sprinkled bits of telnet to support encrypted connections, not
> kerbirized authentication.  Garrett is right, this should stay just where
> it is, I retract my statement that moving this would be okay.

I must be on drugs :-( . I remember this now. OK - it stays where it is.

> > > 6) (not discussed at all - I think) Eric Young has not touched eBones
> > >    for _years_, and is not likely to. The code in eBones is a mess, and I
> > >    would like to rebuild it as a lib/ include/ usr.bin/ usr.sbin/
> > >    structure for orthogonality with secure and gnu. This is more-or-less
> > >    how the original code looked.
> > 
> > I wanted to do this but never had the time.
> 
> Okay, so now we really need to know what Geoff was up to!!!

I know where to find him. I'll phone him.

M

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