-c none option

Damien Miller djm at mindrot.org
Tue Dec 11 12:52:51 EST 2001


On Mon, 10 Dec 2001, Dan Kaminsky wrote:

> But what about as a compile-time option, i.e. ./configure --with-null-crypto
> ?  It's the worst tendancy of Microsoft to make an absolute policy statement
> for the "benefit" of the user, despite substantial minority interest in the
> contrary.  If the code for this were to drop on your doorstep, what then?

Options are bad, except for compile time options which are worse.

I don't want -c none in portable, and I don't think Markus wants it in 
OpenBSD (though he can speak for himself).

-d

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