I'm supportive of removing the project at this point.  I presently do not
have the time to address all of the code changes needed throughout the
package and upstream seems inactive.  I have stumbled upon a fork of the
code that does address some of the memory problems, but does not yet
address the reading of an entire file at once into memory rather than
streaming. So until that is addressed, I believe bcrypt should be removed.

Thanks,
Kevin


On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 4:31 PM, Margarita Manterola <ma...@debian.org>wrote:

> Hola Adam D. Barratt!
>
> > On Fri, 2012-11-23 at 20:55 +0000, Margarita Manterola wrote:
> > > bcrypt is a tool to encrypt files using the blowfish algorithm.  It's
> quite
> > > new and after spending a couple of hours with the code, I can say that
> it's
> >  ^^^
> > s/new/old/, maybe? :-)
> >
> > [2004-01-19] Accepted 1.1-2 in unstable (low) (Samuele Giovanni Tonon)
> > [...]
> > [2009-11-01] bcrypt 1.1-6 MIGRATED to testing (Britney)
>
> Wow.  I obviously didn't check the dates.  By looking at the code I assumed
> it was new and immature.
>
> --
> Regards,
> Marga
>



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