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Date:      Wed, 24 Jul 2019 14:56:47 -0400
From:      Robert Simmons <rsimmons0@gmail.com>
To:        "freebsd-security@freebsd.org" <freebsd-security@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Old Stuff
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The safer part of my speculation is specifically based on being less code
to maintain overall. More resources devoted to a smaller code base.

On Wed, Jul 24, 2019 at 1:26 PM Igor Mozolevsky <mozolevsky@gmail.com>
wrote:

>
>
> On Wednesday, 24 July 2019, Robert Simmons wrote:
>
> Lolz, right? :-
>
> > I wonder if FreeBSD should drop support for 32bit? Clean out and remove
> all
> > of it. It should make the code base easier to maintain, cleaner, and
> safer.
>
> Because nobody has a 32bit computer nowadays??? Similarly, you got any
> empirical evidence to back up the "... safer" part of your speculation?
>
> > In this same vein, let's deprecate and remove things like telnet and ftp.
>
>
> How does the saying go, "if you think that encryption is the solution to
> your problem then you don't understand neither encryption nor your
> problem"? I would hazard a guess that over 95% of encrypted traffic needn't
> be encrypted at all, but no commercial interest developed "integrity over
> http" so we all have to suffer "encryption under http" instead.
>
>
> --
>
> Igor M.



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