From: gdale@apple.com (Geoff Dale)
Date: Fri, 4 Jun 93 16:40:59 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Term software develo
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>I've been thinking about what kind of an API could be negotiated
>between terminal-program authors and encryption-mechanism authors.
>
>Suppose a terminal program looks for resources (using macintosh-like
>terminology for a moment) of some type 'Encr', and load them.
>It expects to find subroutines there, that the 
>cypherpunk can add to any conforming terminal emulator.
>Something like this:
>
>  resource #1:  function initialize() -- grab resources
>  resource #2:  function set_key(char key[8])
>  resource #3:  function encrypt(long block_no, char block[8]) 
>  resource #4:  function decrypt(long block_no, char block[8])
>  resource #5:  function finalize() -- shutdown, release resources
>

Woops, this is what I get by not reading all my mail before posting. I just
posted the same suggestion with considerably less detail.

Anyway, I second what henry says.
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