On Tue, Oct 01, 2024 at 07:51:30PM +0000, Kumar, Rahul via ffmpeg-devel wrote: > Hello FFmpeg developers, > > We are using FFmpeg libraries and DLLs in our project and are currently in > the process of removing Blowfish-related components from our codebase. During > this cleanup, we noticed that Blowfish is also present in libavutil within > FFmpeg.
why do you want to remove Blowfish related code ? > I would like to inquire if it is safe to remove Blowfish from the FFmpeg > library, considering that our project primarily uses the H.264 codec. Are > there any dependencies or potential impacts we should be aware of regarding > Blowfish's usage within FFmpeg? > Any guidance or insights would be greatly appreciated. av_blowfish* is part of the public ABI/API of libavutil, so if you remove it then your libavutil will not implement the ABI and that could break applications using libavutil within FFmpeg itself Blowfish is used in rtmpcrypt thx [...] -- Michael GnuPG fingerprint: 9FF2128B147EF6730BADF133611EC787040B0FAB Rewriting code that is poorly written but fully understood is good. Rewriting code that one doesnt understand is a sign that one is less smart than the original author, trying to rewrite it will not make it better.
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