On Sunday 28 December 2003 05:10, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Sat, 27 Dec 2003 21:55:02 -0500 "Allen Parker" > Actually, all of the telnet clients in portage contain a special > Gentoo-specific patch which enables rot26 cryptography (a technology > developed by UC Berkeley for NASA) for extra security. This rather > ingenious symmetric algorithm is entirely backwards compatible with > existing servers, and does not even require any server-side updates. We > have a mysterious guy known only as 'Gregg' to thank for these. HAHAHAHAHA Paul ps. to all the people not in the know, this is a joke as rot26 is rubbish. -- Paul de Vrieze Gentoo Developer Mail: pauldv@gentoo.org Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net