From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jan 15 19:11:03 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id TAA04804 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 15 Jan 1996 19:11:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from rocky.sri.MT.net (rocky.sri.MT.net [204.182.243.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id TAA04797 for ; Mon, 15 Jan 1996 19:10:57 -0800 (PST) Received: (from nate@localhost) by rocky.sri.MT.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) id UAA02937; Mon, 15 Jan 1996 20:13:11 -0700 Date: Mon, 15 Jan 1996 20:13:11 -0700 From: Nate Williams Message-Id: <199601160313.UAA02937@rocky.sri.MT.net> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp , Warner Losh , hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FBSD 2.1 In-Reply-To: <3060.821713313@time.cdrom.com> References: <273.821697627@critter.tfs.com> <3060.821713313@time.cdrom.com> Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk [ Using ZIP for the package tools ] > Also, as a point of fact, I thought the unzip we were using was just > the uncompression part, not the unarchiving part. True, but as stated before (and I have them on backup tape somewhere) the format of a ZIP file is public knowledge, and the Info-ZIP folks have done their homework. Their code and algorithms are pretty safe. I think we've got other more heinous code in our tree that we could be more worried about. Again, nothing is safe in the U.S.A. from legal folks wanting to take a pot-shot at us, but I doubt that using ZIP would put us any more at risk that we already are. Nate