I don't need mcrypt nor blowfish but I do need some encrypted credential
storage. Doesn't Imail?
On Fri, 2020-07-03 at 23:02 -0700, Chris Hanson wrote:
> I’m happy if it goes away. I also don’t care about the Blowfish stuff.
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> On Jul 3, 2020, 10:57 PM -0700, Taylor R Campbell <[email protected]>,
> wrote:
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> > Does anyone use the mcrypt module?
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> > There is essentially nothing of security value in it; any value it has
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> > is strictly for compatibility. If nobody needs it for that, then I
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> > would like to flush it.
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> > (Edwin does not rely on mcrypt for Blowfish to process the obsolete
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> > encrypted password file format. mcrypt is also not needed for MD5,
> >
> > which you shouldn't be using anyway except for compatibility. If you
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> > want to do real cryptography in MIT Scheme, that's a totally separate
> >
> > issue!)
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