Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 22:08:12 -0700 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: Colin Percival <colin.percival@wadham.ox.ac.uk> Cc: Alex Dupre <ale@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Removing NOCRYPT Message-ID: <200404282208.12326.wes@softweyr.com> In-Reply-To: <6.1.0.6.1.20040428181623.03cd6ae8@popserver.sfu.ca> References: <6.1.0.6.1.20040427094029.03d3d218@popserver.sfu.ca> <200404281014.49691.wes@softweyr.com> <6.1.0.6.1.20040428181623.03cd6ae8@popserver.sfu.ca>
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On Wednesday 28 April 2004 10:18, Colin Percival wrote:
> At 18:14 28/04/2004, Wes Peters wrote:
> >Many embedded CPUs are not well suited to software cryto. Colin seems
> > to have forgotten just how many people ship (sometimes very small)
> > subsets of FreeBSD and need a way to squeeze unused code out of libc et
> > al.
>
> Ok, I had forgotten that. Can I assume that anyone who needs to save
> space like that is going to be building everything themself?
Yes, or they won't get the savings.
> I don't really mind leaving NOCRYPT in the source tree as long as we
> get it out of the releases.
A wise choice. Thanks for your contributions, you're doing great work, and
thanks again for being so agreeable about all this. ;^)
--
Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?
Wes Peters wes@softweyr.com
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