Re: Fedora Desktop future- RedHat moves

[Alan Cox <alan lxorguk ukuu org uk>]

> > That's hardly unique to proprietary software.  I once relied heavily on 
> > CIPE as a VPN, but FC2 just dumped it with no replacement.  Yes, I could 
> > have kept all the broken pieces of the source code...
> ----
> wasn't the cipe code dropped from the 2.6 kernel?

It was if I remember rightly never in the base kernel. It died because it
was demonstrated to have significant crypto/security weaknesses that were
not trivially fixable.

Alan