1993-09-22 - Re: Public-Key Crypto Toolkit

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From: “Perry E. Metzger” <pmetzger@lehman.com>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
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UTC Datetime: 1993-09-22 15:16:53 UTC
Raw Date: Wed, 22 Sep 93 08:16:53 PDT

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From: "Perry E. Metzger" <pmetzger@lehman.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 93 08:16:53 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Public-Key Crypto Toolkit
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Paul Robichaux says:
> I'd really like to see the toolkit in plain ol' C. I realize that
> other languages and systems have great advantages over C, but C is
> portable beyond belief.

I agree. By having a good toolkit in C, we'd have an easy time not
just prototyping applications but building real and portable ones.

I'd suggest that a streams mechanism, so you could attach various
processes to a bunch of data in sequence the way unix filters work,
would also be nice. That way sequences like

compress -- des -- tran -- des -- idea -- radix-64ify

could be really easily built.

Perry





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