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by alextgordon 4447 days ago
Any SSL implementation worth its salt needs to implement historical primitives like RC4 and MD5. libsodium will not and should not implement these because they conflict with the goal of providing an idiot-proof crypto library.
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Isn't it better to not include stuff that's insecure, even if they have historic value? Isn't this a big part of the problem of some (even OpenSSL) software?
This has nothing to do with what I asked. Also, this I know. Sorry? :P