openssh-blacklist - careless waste of space.

Jan Chadima jchadima at redhat.com
Sun Aug 2 19:45:43 UTC 2009


----- "Steve Grubb" <sgrubb at redhat.com> wrote

> I think this is a bit like virus definitions. 800Mb is excessive to
> ship in a 
> package. I think the definitions could be created by a script, but
> will take 
> some time to generate. Maybe adding a generator for people not
> connected would 
> let them recreate the content?
> 
> But a 800Mb package is bigger than the livecd.
> 
> -Steve
> 
To make working generator is not so easy. It is necessary to provide it in 3 archs 
32bit le, 64 le and 32bit be. To run it on all the architectures. (Problematic is 
the big endian architecture) The generation of the keysets is time consumpting process.
 


-- 
JFCh




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