From: Jim McCoy <mccoy@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu>
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 93 12:46:24 PDT
To: strat@abc.ksu.ksu.edu (Steve Davis)
Subject: Re: The need for FREE cryptography ...
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> What I'd need, if I wanted to integrate this technology into
> new platforms such as voice communication or an encrypted file system, is a
> library of tools for shuffling this data around and piping it through the
> "magic" algorithms.

Such an interface would be a useful addition to PGP, maybe a libpgp.a
approach with such magic routines.  This would definitely be useful for a
great many things.

> It would be wonderful if somebody would put a
> reasonably secure package (much like PGP) and copyleft the source.

You should try reading the source sometime.  Like the file pgp.c....

jim