From: Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org>
To: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] FreeBSD retires gets()!
Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2019 09:32:07 +1100 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.21.9999.1911270924110.33542@aneurin.horsfall.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1574805575.17040.for-standards-violators@oclsc.org>
On Tue, 26 Nov 2019, Norman Wilson wrote:
> We retired gets from Research UNIX back in 1984 or perhaps earlier, with
> no serious pain because replacing it wasn't hard and everybody agreed
> with the reason.
Interesting... Then again,. you weren't bound by POSIX :-)
> I'm glad to hear some part of the rest of the world is catching up.
The wheels grind slowly...
> We also decided to retire the old Enigma-derived crypt(1), except we
> didn't want to throw it out entirely in case someone had an old
> encrypted file and wanted the contents back. So it was removed from the
> manual and the binary moved to /usr/games.
Back in the Usenet days, somebody posted the Cryptobreakers Workbench (?)
which was designed to work with crypt-encrypted files; it's probably still
around somewhere... Fairly easy to break as I recall, because it emulated
a single-rotor Enigma.
-- Dave
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-11-26 22:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-11-26 21:59 Norman Wilson
2019-11-26 22:31 ` George Michaelson
2019-11-26 22:32 ` Dave Horsfall [this message]
2019-11-26 23:29 ` Richard Salz
2019-11-27 0:29 ` Dave Horsfall
2019-11-26 23:06 ` Katherine Barto
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2019-11-26 21:10 Dave Horsfall
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