I know of one or two applications that moved to nettle once the des 
functionality was removed from libcrypt. Not sure if that's a good reason to 
keep it, they are deprecated, but removing it may make it slower to move to 
that version.

On May 11, 2019 7:40:34 PM UTC, [email protected] wrote:
>Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov <[email protected]> writes:
>
>> Is there anything that we can do to help with 3.5?
>
>I've just updated the NEWS file, please review. Since it's an ABI
>break,
>maybe a few more things could be deleted. 
>
>* Can we delete _rsa_blind/_rsa_unblind (currently demoted from rsa.h
>to
>  rsa-internal.h, and with internal symbol names).
>
>* dsa-compat.h (compatibility with Nettle older than 3.0)?
>
>* des-compat.h (compatibility with old libdes/openssl)? Also mentioned
>  as a candidate for deletion when Nettle-3.0 was released.
>
>> I'm still playing around HMAC/digest refactoring, but I'm not happy
>with the
>> way code looks in my tree.
>
>I've committed changes to move buffers last in the hash context
>structs.
>That should make it a bit easier, but probably still not so pretty.
>
>Regards,
>/Niels
>
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