freebsd security - Jul 2019 - Old Stuff

On Wednesday, 24 July 2019, Robert Simmons wrote:

Lolz, right? :-
> I wonder if FreeBSD should drop support for 32bit? Clean out and remove
all
> of it. It should make the code base easier to maintain, cleaner, and
safer.

Because nobody has a 32bit computer nowadays??? Similarly, you got any
empirical evidence to back up the "... safer" part of your
speculation?
> In this same vein, let's deprecate and remove things like telnet and
ftp.

How does the saying go, "if you think that encryption is the solution to
your problem then you don't understand neither encryption nor your
problem"? I would hazard a guess that over 95% of encrypted traffic
needn't
be encrypted at all, but no commercial interest developed "integrity over
http" so we all have to suffer "encryption under http" instead.


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Igor M.

The safer part of my speculation is specifically based on being less code
to maintain overall. More resources devoted to a smaller code base.

On Wed, Jul 24, 2019 at 1:26 PM Igor Mozolevsky <mozolevsky at gmail.com>
wrote:
>
>
> On Wednesday, 24 July 2019, Robert Simmons wrote:
>
> Lolz, right? :-
>
> > I wonder if FreeBSD should drop support for 32bit? Clean out and
remove
> all
> > of it. It should make the code base easier to maintain, cleaner, and
> safer.
>
> Because nobody has a 32bit computer nowadays??? Similarly, you got any
> empirical evidence to back up the "... safer" part of your
speculation?
>
> > In this same vein, let's deprecate and remove things like telnet
and ftp.
>
>
> How does the saying go, "if you think that encryption is the solution
to
> your problem then you don't understand neither encryption nor your
> problem"? I would hazard a guess that over 95% of encrypted traffic
needn't
> be encrypted at all, but no commercial interest developed "integrity
over
> http" so we all have to suffer "encryption under http"
instead.
>
>
> --
>
> Igor M.