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Date:      Mon, 18 Aug 2025 22:01:46 +0100
From:      Lexi Winter <ivy@freebsd.org>
To:        Vadim Goncharov <vadimnuclight@gmail.com>
Cc:        John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>, Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>, arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ABI guarantees
Message-ID:  <aKOUuh-s-qSrlHUb@amaryllis.le-fay.org>
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Vadim Goncharov:
> Don't know about IPsec but deleting blowfish was surely a mistake - it is
> not broken and could be used e.g. in IoT where space constraints matter, for
> those who know what they are doing.

Blowfish (along with 3DES) was broken by Sweet32.  it might still be
secure with certain specific constraints (like regular key rotation)
but i don't think it's wrong to err on the side of not shipping known
broken cyphers.

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