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Subject: Re: [9front] obsolete cryptographic algorithms
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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.