26 Nov
2019
26 Nov
'19
11:32 p.m.
On Tue, 26 Nov 2019, Norman Wilson wrote:
We retired gets from Research UNIX back in 1984 or
perhaps earlier, with
no serious pain because replacing it wasn't hard and everybody agreed
with the reason.
Interesting... Then again,. you weren't bound by POSIX :-)
I'm glad to hear some part of the rest of the
world is catching up.
The wheels grind slowly...
We also decided to retire the old Enigma-derived
crypt(1), except we
didn't want to throw it out entirely in case someone had an old
encrypted file and wanted the contents back. So it was removed from the
manual and the binary moved to /usr/games.
Back in the Usenet days, somebody posted the Cryptobreakers Workbench (?)
which was designed to work with crypt-encrypted files; it's probably still
around somewhere... Fairly easy to break as I recall, because it emulated
a single-rotor Enigma.
-- Dave