Bug#694093: RM: bcrypt/1.1-6

[Margarita Manterola <marga@debian.org>]

Package: release.debian.org
Severity: normal
User: release.debian.org@packages.debian.org
Usertags: rm

Hi,

bcrypt is a tool to encrypt files using the blowfish algorithm.  It's quite
new and after spending a couple of hours with the code, I can say that it's
not release quality at all.

RC Bugs:

* bugs.debian.org/693460
  Can't handle files larger than 4GB, causes data loss if used with default
  parameters.

* bugs.debian.org/694091
  Loads the whole file into memory, causes processes deaths when trying to
  allocate more memory than the machine has.

Other bugs:

* bugs.debian.org/562084
  Crashes when decrypting read-only files

Pretty much the same functionality that bcrypt offers can be achieved with
openssl (openssl bf -in infile -out outfile).

I recommend that bcrypt should be removed from testing until these bugs
have been addressed.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
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Architecture: i386 (i686)

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