From owner-freebsd-current Fri Jun 16 11:06:13 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id LAA06468 for current-outgoing; Fri, 16 Jun 1995 11:06:13 -0700 Received: from gndrsh.aac.dev.com (gndrsh.aac.dev.com [198.145.92.241]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id LAA06437 for ; Fri, 16 Jun 1995 11:06:10 -0700 Received: (from rgrimes@localhost) by gndrsh.aac.dev.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id LAA05239; Fri, 16 Jun 1995 11:05:35 -0700 From: "Rodney W. Grimes" Message-Id: <199506161805.LAA05239@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> Subject: Re: DES, crypt and eBones To: mark@grondar.za (Mark Murray) Date: Fri, 16 Jun 1995 11:05:35 -0700 (PDT) Cc: current@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199506161708.TAA13736@grumble.grondar.za> from "Mark Murray" at Jun 16, 95 07:07:59 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1367 Sender: current-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > > Hi folks. > > I am getting a bit desparate now. I would _really_ like to start cleaning > up the crypto code, and have made some specific proposals about haw I would > like to do it, and asked for a mentor/buddy/tester to check it out before > I commit. Is there no-one out there who is interested in this? > > To summarise my proposals again (in no particular order): > > 1) The crypto code is a mess. I fail to see why it is broken into `secure' > and `ebones', so I would like to merge these. (With eBones remaining a > separate distribution). I would like the distributions to be called > `crypto' and `krb'. Sounds like renaming for the sake of renaming to me :-(. If eBones is going to remain seperate leave it called eBones!! > 2) I would like to update our DES library with some code I have from Eric > Young, including a secure (encrypting) telnet. He is the original author > of our DES library, and he converted Bones to eBones (Encrypting Bones). I have no problem with this. > 3) I want to fix some nasty NIS/Kerberos incosistencies. I have no problem with this. > 4) I want to complete the RPC work. I have no problem with this. > 5) etc... Need more details... -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Custom computers for FreeBSD