Tuesday, August 04, 2020

Re: rsync: update to 3.2.2

Stuart Henderson <stu@spacehopper.org> wrote:

> On 2020/08/04 12:30, Todd C. Miller wrote:
> > On Tue, 04 Aug 2020 12:19:49 -0600, "Theo de Raadt" wrote:
> >
> > > This is totally ridiculous.
> > >
> > > Who is served by all these extra features? Didn't it work before?
> > > Is it suddenly MANDATORY to have all these features?
> >
> > Wow, that's crazy. Can we have a "bloated" flavor instead so
> > everyone is not subjected to this nonsense?
>
> Or a "weak_hash" flavour for MD5 fans.
>

If rsync is used inside ssh, then noone cares.

But if rsync is used outside ssh, I really doubt MD5 use is the most
serious worry.

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