Re: mcrypt status (Re: [gentoo-dev] Idea for a new project: gentoo-libs)

2018-08-04 Thread Andrew Savchenko
Hi, On Sat, 4 Aug 2018 07:29:47 -0700 Hanno Böck wrote: > > Symmetric cryptography is quite conservative and it took years and > > even decades for algorithms and their implementations to become > > trusted, so there is nothing wrong in using good old verified > > software. > > When it comes to

[gentoo-dev] Last rites: sys-apps/microcode-ctl

2018-08-04 Thread Thomas Deutschmann
# Thomas Deutschmann (05 Aug 2018) # Deprecated. Using recent microcodes with this package either won't work # or crash your system. Please change your setup and make use of kernel's # early microcode loading feature, see https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Microcode # for more details. Removal in 30

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH 0/3] GLEP 63: rationale part

2018-08-04 Thread Michał Górny
W dniu sob, 04.08.2018 o godzinie 14∶34 +0200, użytkownik Ulrich Mueller napisał: > > > > > > On Sat, 4 Aug 2018, Michał Górny wrote: > > GLEP 63 originally did not include a rationale. Given the importance > > of this document, I think it would be reasonable to include one and > > use the

Re: mcrypt status (Re: [gentoo-dev] Idea for a new project: gentoo-libs)

2018-08-04 Thread Andrew Savchenko
On Sat, 4 Aug 2018 13:05:56 -0500 Marty E. Plummer wrote: [...] > It seems that every last person commenting on this is talking mcrypt, > not mhash, which is what I mentioned in the first place. As far as I can > tell, these are entirely differnt projects which just happen to have a > similar

Re: mcrypt status (Re: [gentoo-dev] Idea for a new project: gentoo-libs)

2018-08-04 Thread Marty E. Plummer
On Sat, Aug 04, 2018 at 11:43:28AM +0300, Andrew Savchenko wrote: > On Mon, 25 Jun 2018 07:59:47 +0200 Hanno Böck wrote: > > On Fri, 22 Jun 2018 21:50:50 -0500 > > "Marty E. Plummer" wrote: > > > > > So, as you may be aware I've been doing some work on moving bzip2 to > > > an autotools based

Re: mcrypt status (Re: [gentoo-dev] Idea for a new project: gentoo-libs)

2018-08-04 Thread Thomas Deutschmann
On 2018-08-04 16:29, Hanno Böck wrote: >> Do you have any evidence that mcrypt should not be used? > Well, PHP was as far as I'm aware its main user and PHP has declared > mcrypt support to be deprecated a while ago. In all fairness: Yes, PHP project has removed ext/mcrypt from core, but they

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH 0/3] GLEP 63: rationale part

2018-08-04 Thread Thomas Deutschmann
On 2018-08-04 14:34, Ulrich Mueller wrote: > So this should either have been submitted as part of that update, or > you should at least have given notice to the council that further > changes are pending (as you were present during the meeting). In the > latter case, we may likely have postponed

Re: mcrypt status (Re: [gentoo-dev] Idea for a new project: gentoo-libs)

2018-08-04 Thread Hanno Böck
Hi, On Sat, 4 Aug 2018 11:43:28 +0300 Andrew Savchenko wrote: > Do you have any evidence that mcrypt should not be used? Well, PHP was as far as I'm aware its main user and PHP has declared mcrypt support to be deprecated a while ago. > Symmetric cryptography is quite conservative and it took

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH 0/3] GLEP 63: rationale part

2018-08-04 Thread Ulrich Mueller
> On Sat, 4 Aug 2018, Michał Górny wrote: > GLEP 63 originally did not include a rationale. Given the importance > of this document, I think it would be reasonable to include one and > use the opportunity to explain the policies in detail. The council just approved the updated GLEP 63 in its

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: mcrypt status

2018-08-04 Thread Andrew Savchenko
On Sat, 4 Aug 2018 09:51:14 + (UTC) Martin Vaeth wrote: > Andrew Savchenko wrote: > > > > Actually for local symmetric encryption this is the best tool I > > know. > > What is the advantage over gpg --symmetric? 1) mcrypt has wider range of algorithms, including gost which I need. 2)

[gentoo-dev] Re: mcrypt status

2018-08-04 Thread Martin Vaeth
Andrew Savchenko wrote: > > Actually for local symmetric encryption this is the best tool I > know. What is the advantage over gpg --symmetric?

mcrypt status (Re: [gentoo-dev] Idea for a new project: gentoo-libs)

2018-08-04 Thread Andrew Savchenko
On Mon, 25 Jun 2018 07:59:47 +0200 Hanno Böck wrote: > On Fri, 22 Jun 2018 21:50:50 -0500 > "Marty E. Plummer" wrote: > > > So, as you may be aware I've been doing some work on moving bzip2 to > > an autotools based build. Recently I've ran into app-crypt/mhash, > > which is in a semi-abandoned

[gentoo-dev] [PATCH 2/3] glep-0063: Reorder references to match document order

2018-08-04 Thread Michał Górny
--- glep-0063.rst | 12 ++-- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/glep-0063.rst b/glep-0063.rst index c783910..e40ddd3 100644 --- a/glep-0063.rst +++ b/glep-0063.rst @@ -160,12 +160,6 @@ References .. [#GNUPG-FAQ-11-4] GnuPG FAQ: Why doesn’t GnuPG default to

[gentoo-dev] [PATCH 3/3] glep-0063: Include a rationale

2018-08-04 Thread Michał Górny
--- glep-0063.rst | 129 ++ 1 file changed, 129 insertions(+) diff --git a/glep-0063.rst b/glep-0063.rst index e40ddd3..cab52b0 100644 --- a/glep-0063.rst +++ b/glep-0063.rst @@ -132,6 +132,122 @@ of the fingerprint field. In any place that

[gentoo-dev] [PATCH 1/3] glep-0063: Remove unused references

2018-08-04 Thread Michał Górny
--- glep-0063.rst | 7 --- 1 file changed, 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/glep-0063.rst b/glep-0063.rst index 64fb437..c783910 100644 --- a/glep-0063.rst +++ b/glep-0063.rst @@ -163,9 +163,6 @@ References .. [#DEBIANGPG] Debian GPG documentation (https://wiki.debian.org/Keysigning) -..

[gentoo-dev] [PATCH 0/3] GLEP 63: rationale part

2018-08-04 Thread Michał Górny
Hi, GLEP 63 originally did not include a rationale. Given the importance of this document, I think it would be reasonable to include one and use the opportunity to explain the policies in detail. -- Best regards, Michał Górny Michał Górny (3): glep-0063: Remove unused references glep-0063: