Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 15:30:07 -0400 From: Jim Rees <rees@umich.edu> To: src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/enigma enigma.1 Message-ID: <20040514193008.503382081E@citi.umich.edu> In-Reply-To: Brian Fundakowski Feldman, Fri, 14 May 2004 15:00:52 EDT
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You may want to amend it into the 21st century regarding what the alternatives are for "real" encryption -- perhaps replace all of the mentioned alternatives with openssl(1), or just replace bdes(1)... You might also want to clarify that the encryption is a simple single rotor, not the more difficult (but still unsafe) German military Enigma. Someone should also fix the bdes(1) man page, which still says, "DES is considered a very strong cryptosystem" and "key search attacks... are very expensive and time-consuming." Just taking out "very" in both places might be enough. And add a pointer to openssl(1) for something stronger.
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