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From: ori@eigenstate.org
To: 9front@9front.org
Subject: Re: [9front] obsolete cryptographic algorithms
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2022 18:26:05 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <532502E979B5760FCA5D7CE49FB9CA4F@eigenstate.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3SV1D3BDX9GTI.2KFKQ4XBWIE2D@mforney.org>

Quoth Michael Forney <mforney@mforney.org>:
> 
> What about the ones that aren't used by anything in 9front? I was
> poking around libsec a while back and noticed that dsa and elgamal
> are completely unused.
> 
> Any reason to keep them around? Is there external plan9 software
> out there that uses dsa or elgamal from libsec?

I think I'm happy enough to see them gone if we're certain that they're
dead code. If it turns out that there's soemthing that needs them, we can
always bring it back from history -- though I don't know what protocols
force DSA or ElGamal.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-09-27 22:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-06-04  7:13 sml
2022-06-04 14:47 ` ori
2022-06-04 15:26   ` mkf9
2022-06-04 15:32     ` ori
2022-06-04 15:36       ` ori
2022-06-04 16:07         ` Stanley Lieber
2022-06-04 16:12           ` ori
2022-09-27 20:10   ` Michael Forney
2022-09-27 20:11     ` hiro
2022-09-27 20:31       ` Michael Forney
2022-09-27 21:40         ` hiro
2022-09-27 22:26     ` ori [this message]
2022-09-28  6:41       ` hiro
2022-09-29  5:01         ` ori
2022-09-29  6:17           ` unobe
2022-09-29  6:30             ` unobe
2022-09-29  8:53           ` hiro
2022-10-02 18:23     ` [9front] " magma698hfsp273p9f

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