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LibreSSL languishes on Linux

LibreSSL languishes on Linux

Posted Jan 7, 2021 11:49 UTC (Thu) by geert (subscriber, #98403)
In reply to: LibreSSL languishes on Linux by Karellen
Parent article: LibreSSL languishes on Linux

Exactly. In those days, everybody was well-behaving on the Internet. People logged in to remote systems using telnet and rlogin, ran commands on remote systems using rsh, and used "xhost +" to interact graphically with programs running on remote systems.

After one-too-many pranks, the latter was quickly replaced by custom scripts calling xauth and copying over magic cookies to remote systems.
As network sniffing increased, people started to worry about security. Fortunately ssh (incl. -X) arrived, making most of the above issues moot.
But the WWW was still (mostly) limited to plain HTTP...


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LibreSSL languishes on Linux

Posted Jan 7, 2021 13:15 UTC (Thu) by pizza (subscriber, #46) [Link] (1 responses)

> But the WWW was still (mostly) limited to plain HTTP...

Don't forget that at the time, there were some very real legal issues with respect to strong encryption.

LibreSSL languishes on Linux

Posted Jan 7, 2021 13:20 UTC (Thu) by geert (subscriber, #98403) [Link]

Oh right, I almost forgot about the need to publish the book "PGP Source Code and Internals", as a way to bypass limitation of exporting digital code (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Zimmermann#PGP)


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