| 1 |
On Sunday 28 December 2003 05:10, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
| 2 |
> On Sat, 27 Dec 2003 21:55:02 -0500 "Allen Parker" <allenp@×××.org> |
| 3 |
|
| 4 |
> Actually, all of the telnet clients in portage contain a special |
| 5 |
> Gentoo-specific patch which enables rot26 cryptography (a technology |
| 6 |
> developed by UC Berkeley for NASA) for extra security. This rather |
| 7 |
> ingenious symmetric algorithm is entirely backwards compatible with |
| 8 |
> existing servers, and does not even require any server-side updates. We |
| 9 |
> have a mysterious guy known only as 'Gregg' to thank for these. |
| 10 |
|
| 11 |
HAHAHAHAHA |
| 12 |
|
| 13 |
Paul |
| 14 |
ps. to all the people not in the know, this is a joke as rot26 is rubbish. |
| 15 |
|
| 16 |
-- |
| 17 |
Paul de Vrieze |
| 18 |
Gentoo Developer |
| 19 |
Mail: pauldv@g.o |
| 20 |
Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net |
Archives