Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos n.mavrogiannopoulos@gmail.com writes:
I know of one or two applications that moved to nettle once the des functionality was removed from libcrypt. Not sure if that's a good reason to keep it, they are deprecated, but removing it may make it slower to move to that version.
But I'm not considering deleting des support (the things declared in des.h), only the libdes/openssl compatibility glue in des-compat.h.
Ah, and there's also md5-compat.*, for api-compatibility with the RFC1321 reference implementation. This seems to be used by a few debian packages (radcli, chiark-utils, viking), see https://codesearch.debian.net/search?q=md5-compat.h, so I think we should keep it around; it's very simple and testing is better than for des-compat.h.
Regards, /Niels