[PROPOSAL] Evict zlib

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Fri, 2019-05-03 at 10:51 +0300, Alexander Bokovoy wrote:
> On pe, 03 touko 2019, Andrew Bartlett via samba-technical wrote:
> > 
> > It was recently pointed out that unused cryptography can be a pain
> > for
> > users of our tarball.  I also recently did some work[1] where we
> > documented the location of cryptography in Samba.
> > 
> > With GnuTLS being a requirement now, I think zlib is also a
> > reasonable
> > requirement and removing it would also remove some bad and un-used
> > crypto from the tree.
> > 
> > What do folks think?
> +1
> 
> There are four places where zlib is in use in Samba:
>  - NDR compression/decompression code in librpc
>  - DRSU replication code in libcli uses CRC32
>  - CRC32 use in gencache
>  - ntlmssp signing code uses CRC32 code
> 
> I think this part of zlib is stable enough and available widely.

Thanks.  

Andrew Bartlett

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