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Re: [RETRACTED] Intent to package: libdes



On Sat, Jul 18, 1998 at 04:33:22PM -0400, Gregory S. Stark wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, Jul 18, 1998 at 02:14:49PM +0200, jdassen@wi.leidenuniv.nl wrote:
> > > For a personal project, I need Eric Young's libdes. It's DFSG-free (tho=
> > ugh
> > > not exportable from the US), and some code already uses part of it (SSH
> > > comes to mind). I'd like to package it up, if there are no objections.
> > >=20
> > As I just discovered, libdes (and its applications) is included in the SS=
> > L*
> > packages.
> 
> First of all, you might consider avoiding quoted-unreadable encoding stuff
> at least when it's not necessary. 

I was certain I had turned this off in mutt.  I do not see an option in
.muttrc that would be responsible.  I'll check /etc/muttrc in a bit.


> Secondly I assume it's in libcrypto.so in the libssl08 package then?
> It doesn't include a library called libdes specifically.
> 
> However, there is a libdes in kerberos in the kerberos4kth package. 
> It's called libdes and it's based on EAY's DES code but I think it's
> a different API, which is what Kerberos expects.

so then it's not useful outside its parent package?

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