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Re: disable HPN in sshd for the -10 branch?



dholland-tech%netbsd.org@localhost (David Holland) writes:

>(1) having an unencrypted option at all is one of the ways spooks like
>to weaken cryptosystems; it creates ways to force/cause people to use
>it when they didn't mean to.

People have to be very clear in making that choice and they actually
use it for a reason.

Consider the alternatives that are much weaker and don't protect
anything at all.

Or consider the alternative to create separate tools that satisfy
the requirements that the HPN patch was created for. Will that be
better?

Also consider that people believe their data is safe in the current
virtualized world, just because someone calls "encryption".


>(2) if you don't encrypt everything, you're telling anyone who's
>listening which data's important.

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