Re: F30 Self-Contained Change proposal: libcrypt.so.1 (compatibility library for POSIX): Let encrypt, encrypt_r, setkey, setkey_r, and fcrypt return ENOSYS instead of performing any real operation

[Simo Sorce]

On Tue, 2019-01-15 at 10:39 +0100, Florian Weimer wrote:
>  * Ben Cotton:
>  
>  > Remove real functionality from encrypt, encrypt_r, setkey, setkey_r,
>  > and fcrypt from the libxcrypt.so.1 compatibility library and let those
>  > functions set "errno" to "ENOSYS" when invoked.
>  
>  encrypt rewrites its argument in place, so this will leave the argument
>  unencrypted.  This does not seem a good idea, even if it's just DES. 
Maybe encrypt with AES and return an error anyway ?

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Simo Sorce
Sr. Principal Software Engineer
Red Hat, Inc