Date: Mon, 15 Jan 1996 20:13:11 -0700 From: Nate Williams <nate@sri.MT.net> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com>, Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FBSD 2.1 Message-ID: <199601160313.UAA02937@rocky.sri.MT.net> In-Reply-To: <3060.821713313@time.cdrom.com> References: <273.821697627@critter.tfs.com> <3060.821713313@time.cdrom.com>
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[ Using ZIP for the package tools ] > Also, as a point of fact, I thought the unzip we were using was just > the uncompression part, not the unarchiving part. True, but as stated before (and I have them on backup tape somewhere) the format of a ZIP file is public knowledge, and the Info-ZIP folks have done their homework. Their code and algorithms are pretty safe. I think we've got other more heinous code in our tree that we could be more worried about. Again, nothing is safe in the U.S.A. from legal folks wanting to take a pot-shot at us, but I doubt that using ZIP would put us any more at risk that we already are. Nate
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