Van de Ven: Deprecating old crypto
Worth a read: this postfrom Arjan van de Ven on the difficulty of removing old, insecurecryptographic algorithms from a Linux distribution. "But more, andthis is a call to action: If you're working on an open source project thatuses crypto, please please don't opencode crypto algorithm usage. Thealgorithm may be outdated at any time and might have to go away in ahurry."