1. Garrett D'Amore Avatar Garrett D'Amore
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makekey utility is crap and should be removed

Issue #57 resolved
Garrett D'Amore repo owner created an issue

The makekey utility was used to generate passwords for the password file, using hacks on DES. These days modern /etc/shadow files use better algorithms than DES, and the utility really should not be used for anything real. (Its a trivial wrapper around crypt(3c), but it only supports passwords of at most 8 bytes!!)

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