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Date:      Mon,  1 May 1995 21:31:20 +0400
From:      "Andrey A. Chernov, Black Mage" <ache@astral.msk.su>
To:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@ref.tfs.com>
Cc:        CVS-commiters@time.cdrom.com, cvs-user@time.cdrom.com, jkh@time.cdrom.com
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/release Makefile
Message-ID:  <bLehHfluYA@astral.msk.su>
In-Reply-To: <199505011633.JAA03417@ref.tfs.com>; from Poul-Henning Kamp at Mon, 1 May 1995 09:33:51 -0700 (PDT)
References:  <199505011633.JAA03417@ref.tfs.com>

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In message <199505011633.JAA03417@ref.tfs.com> Poul-Henning Kamp
    writes:

>> In message <199505011201.FAA21246@time.cdrom.com> Jordan K. Hubbard
>>     writes:
>> 
>> >jkh         95/05/01 05:01:41
>> 
>> >  Modified:    release   Makefile
>> >  Log:
>> >  Rename secure to DES.  This isn't a 100% accurate renaming since some
>> >  of the eBones stuff is in there too, but it's better than `secure', which
>> >  implies that the user will be insecure without it.
>> 
>> DES is very bad choice. Maybe 'crypto' is better name?

>DES is indeed a very good name, it describes exactly what you don't
>have if you leave this packet out during installation.

DES is only small part of what you don't have, also
you don't have eBones (aka Kerberos) and lot
of authentification stuff imbedded into various pgms,
you don't have encrypted telnet, etc.

-- 
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