From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Apr 8 9:19:57 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from rjk191.rh.psu.edu (RJK191.rh.psu.edu [128.118.193.182]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5C3537B5C6 for ; Sat, 8 Apr 2000 09:19:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ray@rjk191.rh.psu.edu) Received: (from ray@localhost) by rjk191.rh.psu.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) id MAA19799 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Sat, 8 Apr 2000 12:19:30 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from ray) Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2000 12:19:30 -0400 From: Ray Kohler To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: MD5 in Kernel Message-ID: <20000408121930.A19774@rjk191.rh.psu.edu> Reply-To: rjk191@psu.edu References: <20000408115259.A63617@prime.cs.ohiou.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <20000408115259.A63617@prime.cs.ohiou.edu>; from mtomko@prime.cs.ohiou.edu on Sat, Apr 08, 2000 at 11:52:59AM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Apr 08, 2000 at 11:52:59AM -0400, Mark J Tomko wrote: > Is it a good idea for the average user to enable the MD5 option in the > kernel? I'm just wondering if it's one of those "if you needed it, > you'd know it" options, or if my system will be considerably less secure > without it? Does removing it make the kernel any smaller? Actually, it's been enabled standard for a good while anyway (at least in 4.0). In other words, it's included whether you want to or not. Just lately its name was removed from LINT in order to avoid confusion. As for 3.X, I don't think it's always there but if it's so good that they made it mandatory in 4.0, I'd use it... -- Ray Kohler FreeBSD -- The Power to Serve Chef, n.: Any cook who swears in French. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message