I’m happy if it goes away. I also don’t care about the Blowfish stuff.
On Jul 3, 2020, 10:57 PM -0700, Taylor R Campbell <campb...@mumble.net>, wrote:
> Does anyone use the mcrypt module?
>
> There is essentially nothing of security value in it; any value it has
> is strictly for compatibility. If nobody needs it for that, then I
> would like to flush it.
>
> (Edwin does not rely on mcrypt for Blowfish to process the obsolete
> encrypted password file format. mcrypt is also not needed for MD5,
> which you shouldn't be using anyway except for compatibility. If you
> want to do real cryptography in MIT Scheme, that's a totally separate
> issue!)
>
