NEW: security/aespipe

[Giovanni Bechis-2]

pkg/DESCR:
aespipe program is AES encrypting or decrypting pipe. It reads from
standard input and writes to standard output. It can be used to
create and restore encrypted tar or cpio archives.

Tested @amd64 and available at http://bigio.snb.it/openbsd/aespipe-2.3d.tgz
  Cheers
   Giovanni

[Federico G. Schwindt]

On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 09:13:55AM +0200, Giovanni Bechis wrote:
> pkg/DESCR:
> aespipe program is AES encrypting or decrypting pipe. It reads from
> standard input and writes to standard output. It can be used to
> create and restore encrypted tar or cpio archives.
>
> Tested @amd64 and available at http://bigio.snb.it/openbsd/aespipe-2.3d.tgz
>  Cheers
>   Giovanni

  is this really needed?
  you can achieve the same via "openssl enc [-e|-d] -aes128" for example.

  f.-

[Nikolay Sturm-2]

* Federico G. Schwindt [2008-09-04]:
>   is this really needed?
>   you can achieve the same via "openssl enc [-e|-d] -aes128" for example.

There are programs which use this tool. Furthermore, usefulness has
never been considered when adding ports. <eg>

Nikolay

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[Olivier Cherrier]

On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 08:52:28AM +0100, fgsch@... wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 09:13:55AM +0200, Giovanni Bechis wrote:
> > pkg/DESCR:
> > aespipe program is AES encrypting or decrypting pipe. It reads from
> > standard input and writes to standard output. It can be used to
> > create and restore encrypted tar or cpio archives.
> >
> > Tested @amd64 and available at http://bigio.snb.it/openbsd/aespipe-2.3d.tgz
> >  Cheers
> >   Giovanni
>
>   is this really needed?
>   you can achieve the same via "openssl enc [-e|-d] -aes128" for example.

Yes, you are right.
But it may be needed as a dependency by other softwares. Amanda is one
of them: http://www.symacx.com/data/software/OpenBSD/amanda.tgz (to be
tested).


[my aespipe was http://www.symacx.com/data/software/OpenBSD/aespipe.tgz]

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Olivier Cherrier
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