Beecrypt retired

Robert Scheck robert at fedoraproject.org
Tue Mar 11 20:43:19 UTC 2008


On Tue, 11 Mar 2008, Steve Grubb wrote:
> On Tuesday 11 March 2008 03:48:43 pm Robert Scheck wrote:
> > I've a third party application which depends on beecrypt, so I would claim
> > the ownership of this package at least on devel (maybe co-maintain on other
> > branches).
> 
> I'd suggest they port to another library or package beecrypt into their 
> application. We need to stop the proliferation of crypto and try to get it 
> down to 1 or 2 libraries if at all possible.

I heard yourself clearly nominating porting a closed-source ERP system
running at Linux from beecrypt to yet another sucking crypto library... :)

Oh and above was just one example. There is even more software waiting for
you to got rewritten *g*


Greetings,
  Robert




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