crypt(3)

[Tomas Mraz]

On Fri, 2020-01-17 at 10:34 +0000, Matt Caswell wrote:
> 
> On 17/01/2020 06:31, Dr Paul Dale wrote:
> >  1. Leave them public and unchanged — that is, don’t deprecate
> > these two
> >     functions yet.
> >  2. Deprecate them and add KDFs to replace them.
> >  3. Deprecate them, leave them alone and hope they go away
> > painlessly at
> >     some point.
> 
> 2 is really just and extension of 3 - either way we deprecate them.
> In 2
> we additionally provide a replacement.
> 
> I definitely think they *should* be deprecated.
> 
> Any replacement would necessarily go in the "legacy" provider I
> think.
> If a replacement is not difficult I would favour that. But I could
> live
> with (2).

Did you mean (3) here actually?

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