2012/12/9 Nico Kadel-Garcia <nka...@gmail.com> > On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 4:24 PM, Chris Cappuccio <ch...@nmedia.net> wrote: > > Maximo Pech [mak...@gmail.com] wrote: > >> I said I can't code that. > > > > If you already knew the answer was "write it", then you asked the wrong > > question. >
I already knew an answer (not the only one) could be "write it". > > > >> I know that gnupg is in the ports tree, but it > >> just seems strange to me that it isn't on the base system, because for > me > >> it sounds logical that if one of the key points of openbsd is > cryptography, > >> it would have a bsd tool like gnupg. The netpgp thing looks very cool, I > >> didn't know about it. > >> > > > > Do you have any idea how abusrd this is? > > > No I don't, if you don't mind please explain why that's absurd. > >> So my question is why there isn't a tool like that on base, I'm asking > out > >> of curiosity, maybe some historical, reason, technical... I'm not > trying to > >> point this as a fault, I just want to understand better the fact that > gnupg > >> or a bsd licensed equivalent isn't in the base system. > >> > > > > The original PGP program was mostly public domain. As time went on, it > went to a > > highly restrictive license. GnuPG, and later, NetPGP represent the > people who > > had desires to fix that problem. If you want to do it again, nobody will > stop you. > > > > OpenSSH and OpenBSD IPsec represent the OpenBSD solutions to the quality > and > > licensing problems in those areas. OpenSSH is still the gold standard, > OCF/IPsec, > > maybe not. PGP worked, was public domain, encrypts files, and solved one > problem. > > Network layer encryption is an entirely different, and for many, a much > more > > important problem. > That's completely subjective and also it is a problem that has more work behind than the "problem" I think there is with the non existence of bsd tools like gnupg on *base* not on ports and not openssl. What I say is simply that it would be cool if by default on the *base* system OpenBSD had a tool called opgp, opengp, puffypg or whatever, to encrypt files like gnupg does and I was wondering why it does not exist if OpenBSD cares a lot about cryptography. Well, with the information you have given me so far, I think the answer is something like "nobody has written it because we have more important things to do and nobody believes there is a real need for that". Am I right?
