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Date:      Mon, 1 May 1995 10:50:23 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@ref.tfs.com>
To:        ache@astral.msk.su (Andrey A. Chernov, Black Mage)
Cc:        CVS-commiters@time.cdrom.com, cvs-user@time.cdrom.com, jkh@time.cdrom.com
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/release Makefile
Message-ID:  <199505011750.KAA03661@ref.tfs.com>
In-Reply-To: <bLehHfluYA@astral.msk.su> from "Andrey A. Chernov, Black Mage" at May 1, 95 09:31:20 pm

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> >> >  Rename secure to DES.  This isn't a 100% accurate renaming since some
> >> >  of the eBones stuff is in there too, but it's better than `secure', which
> >> >  implies that the user will be insecure without it.
> >> 
> >> DES is very bad choice. Maybe 'crypto' is better name?
> 
> >DES is indeed a very good name, it describes exactly what you don't
> >have if you leave this packet out during installation.
> 
> DES is only small part of what you don't have, also
> you don't have eBones (aka Kerberos) and lot
> of authentification stuff imbedded into various pgms,
> you don't have encrypted telnet, etc.

In short:  You miss everything which relies on ... >DES<  :-)


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Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@login.dknet.dk> -- TRW Financial Systems, Inc.
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