what about a "Security" category?

[Igor Pechtchanski]

On Thu, 6 Jan 2005, Lapo Luchini wrote:

> Reini Urban wrote:
>
> > Lapo Luchini schrieb:
> >
> >>> What about a "Security" category?
> >>
> >>
> >> No one else would like it?
> >> The number of pertinent packages is growing in time 0=)
> >
> >
> > Which packages?
> >
> > We agreed to stay with the debian names only.
> > Currently most of them are in "Net".
> > Which non-Net packages should go to such a Security category?
>
> Personally I'd choose any program that uses cryptography directly (e.g.
> I wound't include autossh as it is "simply" an openssh frontend) and/or
> is useful to secure a system (an antivirus).
> But of course the difference is subtle, progabnly autossh and stunnel
> could be in too.
>
> autossh ?
> ccrypt
> clamav ?
> crypt
> cyrus-sasl ?
> gnome-keyring ?
> gnupg
> keychain ?
> libgcrypt
> libmcrypt
> libsasl ?
> mhash
> netrcat ?
> openssl
> openssh
> splint ?
> stunnel ?
>
> Probably I missed something...

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