Re: Removing NOCRYPT

From: Wes Peters <wes_at_softweyr.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 22:08:12 -0700
On Wednesday 28 April 2004 10:18, Colin Percival wrote:
> At 18:14 28/04/2004, Wes Peters wrote:
> >Many embedded CPUs are not well suited to software cryto.  Colin seems
> > to have forgotten just how many people ship (sometimes very small)
> > subsets of FreeBSD and need a way to squeeze unused code out of libc et
> > al.
>
>   Ok, I had forgotten that.  Can I assume that anyone who needs to save
> space like that is going to be building everything themself?

Yes, or they won't get the savings.

>   I don't really mind leaving NOCRYPT in the source tree as long as we
> get it out of the releases.

A wise choice.  Thanks for your contributions, you're doing great work, and 
thanks again for being so agreeable about all this. ;^)

-- 

        Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?

Wes Peters                                               wes_at_softweyr.com
Received on Wed Apr 28 2004 - 20:08:13 UTC

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