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RevisionDateAuthorComments
 1.38  30-Sep-2025  uwe intro(3): g/c reference to non-existent -lhesiod

PR lib/59676
 1.37  30-Sep-2025  uwe intro(3): g/c spurious .Tn
 1.36  14-Apr-2021  nia OpenSSL man pages have moved
 1.35  14-Apr-2021  nia intro.3: add a few
 1.34  11-May-2018  sevan Pass through mandoc -Tlint, drop Pp before Bl.
Remove reference to libkadm, it is no longer present in NetBSD.
Direct reader to kadm5_pwcheck(3) for libkadm5srv.
 1.33  21-May-2017  riastradh branches: 1.33.8;
Remove some vestiges of MKCRYPTO_IDEA/MKCRYPTO_MDC2.
 1.32  21-May-2017  riastradh Remove MKCRYPTO_RC5. Unconditionally include RC5 in libcrypto.so.

This option existed only because RC5 is covered by patents that, twenty
years ago, we had reason to suspect the patent holder, RSA, Inc., might
litigate. The two US patents in question are 5,724,428 and 5,835,600.

According to the USPTO Patent Term Calculator web site at
<https://www.uspto.gov/patent/laws-and-regulations/patent-term-calculator#heading-5>
(retrieved 2017-05-21), patents filed after 1995-06-07 expire twenty
years after the filing date.

number filing date
5,724,428 1995-11-01
5,835,600 1997-04-21

Thus, these patents appear to be expired.

As proposed on tech-crypto and tech-security:

https://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-crypto/2017/05/05/msg000718.html
https://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-security/2017/05/05/msg000927.html
 1.31  22-Nov-2015  wiz Bump date for previous.
 1.30  22-Nov-2015  kamil +libpanel: Z-order for curses windows
 1.29  03-Jul-2012  wiz Finish previous.
 1.28  03-Jul-2012  wiz Reference libusbhid instead of usb(3) (which was the predecessor for libusbhid).
Bump date.
 1.27  02-Jul-2012  oki add reference to usb(3) and zlib(3).
 1.26  21-Apr-2012  roy Add capfile(5) to describe the termcap format.
Adjust various man pages and other documentation to point to capfile(5)
instead of termcap(5).
Remove getcap(3) as curses hasn't been building it for a long time.
Punt wrterm.c as tset no longer uses it.
 1.25  08-Feb-2011  wiz branches: 1.25.4;
New sentence, new line. Bump date for previous.
 1.24  08-Feb-2011  haad Initial import of libdm and dmctl to tree. libdm library can be used
to access, manage and manipulate device-mapper driver. Which opens us bunch
of new possibilities like

dm-multipath device target
dm-crypt device target
dm-ccd compatibility layer

With this import I'm bringing in dmctl tool for working with dm driver ,too.
I plan to replace gpl2 licensed dmsetup command with our dmctl tool in near
feature. It can also by placed to /rescue where we was not able to put
dmsetup because of licensing problems.

With libdm in tree we can now write RUMP atf test suite for dm driver to
ensure LVM subsystem stability as time goes.

Reviewed by: blymn@ and rmind@
Oked: by no objections on tech-userlevel@
 1.23  09-Dec-2010  njoly branches: 1.23.2;
Remove reference to Curses development kit (CDK) which do not exists
anymore.
 1.22  10-Mar-2009  joerg Remove use of .Xo/.Xc to workaround ancient macro argument limit.
 1.21  10-Nov-2004  wiz branches: 1.21.36;
Fix typo, and comment out link to non-existing usb(3); from Sergey Svishchev.
 1.20  16-Oct-2004  snj Fix two trailing xrefs and kill an unnecessary argument to Nm.
 1.19  20-Mar-2004  snj Err, nevermind.
 1.18  20-Mar-2004  snj Correct usb Xref.
 1.17  07-Aug-2003  agc Move UCB-licensed code from 4-clause to 3-clause licence.

Patches provided by Joel Baker in PR 22309, verified by myself.
 1.16  23-Nov-2001  gmcgarry General cleanup; xref kafs(3)
 1.15  23-Nov-2001  gmcgarry - Xr cdk(3), for what is worth
- describe libposix with xrefs
 1.14  23-Nov-2001  gmcgarry Xref util.3
 1.13  21-Nov-2001  gmcgarry xref com_err(3)
 1.12  10-Nov-2001  gmcgarry - cross-reference skey(3)
- relegate FILES section to library pages
 1.11  08-Nov-2001  gmcgarry Reference krb5(3) and add description for libcom_err.
 1.10  06-Nov-2001  gmcgarry Rework to describe the plethora of libraries that arrived with the
introduction of crypto/Kerberos into the base system.

Doesn't have a hope of being complete since there is little (no?)
documentation available on what the libraries actually do, much
less how to use the functions included within them. It's questionable
whether some of the libraries should exist in the first place.

Does NOT address lib/11191, lib/11171 + others I haven't found yet.
 1.9  11-Sep-2001  wiz Boring whitespace fixes.
 1.8  15-Mar-1999  garbled First round of .Os cleanups. .Os is defined in the tmac.doc-common file,
so we shouldn't override it with versions in the manpages. Many more to
come.
 1.7  30-Aug-1998  enami In SEE ALSO list, use comma to separate elements and don't use to terminate.
 1.6  29-Apr-1998  fair fix bad .Xr references
 1.5  10-May-1995  jtc Commented out inappropriate sections and cross references
 1.4  30-Nov-1994  jtc Merged with 4.4lite.
Changed to conform to NetBSD's new RCS Id convention.
 1.3  24-Oct-1994  deraadt tiny cleanup
 1.2  01-Aug-1993  mycroft Add RCS indentifiers.
 1.1  21-Mar-1993  cgd branches: 1.1.1;
Initial revision
 1.1.1.3  28-Apr-1995  mrg 4.4BSD-Lite2
 1.1.1.2  30-Nov-1994  jtc imported from 4.4lite
 1.1.1.1  21-Mar-1993  cgd initial import of 386bsd-0.1 sources
 1.21.36.1  13-May-2009  jym Sync with HEAD.

Third (and last) commit. See http://mail-index.netbsd.org/source-changes/2009/05/13/msg221222.html
 1.23.2.1  08-Feb-2011  bouyer Sync with HEAD
 1.25.4.2  30-Oct-2012  yamt sync with head
 1.25.4.1  23-May-2012  yamt sync with head.
 1.33.8.1  21-May-2018  pgoyette Sync with HEAD

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