Date: Thu, 2 Dec 1999 08:02:26 +1030 From: Mark Newton <newton@internode.com.au> To: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@futuresouth.com> Cc: Bakul Shah <bakul@torrentnet.com>, Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>, FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: removing enigma(1) Message-ID: <19991202080226.A78012@internode.com.au> In-Reply-To: <19991201152633.K22444@futuresouth.com> References: <199912012020.MAA06160@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <199912012109.QAA06985@chai.torrentnet.com> <19991201152633.K22444@futuresouth.com>
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On Wed, Dec 01, 1999 at 03:26:34PM -0600, Matthew D. Fuller wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 01, 1999 at 04:09:11PM -0500, a little birdie told me
> that Bakul Shah remarked
> > Enigma is just a format converter at this point and should be
> > left around (after renaming it crypt -- which is how it is
> > known on all Unix versions older than 10 years). Some of us
>
> Renaming?
> [15:25:53] mortis:~
> (ttyp9):{838}% ll -i `which crypt` `which enigma`
> 23155 -r-xr-xr-x 2 root wheel 4980 Oct 29 13:47 /usr/bin/crypt*
> 23155 -r-xr-xr-x 2 root wheel 4980 Oct 29 13:47 /usr/bin/enigma*
Ok, so the verdict is that enigma isn't contributing to bloat in
any measurable way whatsoever, because it's merely a hard link to
"crypt", a utility which has long been a useful part of UNIX and
which is required so that people can decrypt their old files (without
needing to spend an hour or so on a brute-force keysearch :-)
- mark
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