From: lbilling@interserv.com (Al Billings)
Date: Fri, 23 Dec 94 14:44:02 PST
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: GUI: PGP vs novices
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>The product works at the Windows Sockets layer, intercepting mail as it is
>sent from the mail application to the SMTP host, and performing the above
>crypto related functions based on text placed at the top of the mail message.

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>A major complication that I've come up against is installation.  Somehow 
>I've got to provide a painless way of discovering the Winsock stack in use 
>on a machine, and installing my WINSOCK.DLL so that it gets loaded instead 
>of the real one (which my software then loads on its own and intercepts 
>calls to.)
>This is really easy to do manually when one has knowledge of such things; 
it >is a major pain in the ass to come up with a way of doing this that doesn't
>require the user to know anything about Windows Sockets or DLL's or path
>variables, etc.

There is also the problem that a number of applications (such as Internet in 
a Box) require there own Winsock to make connections to the Internet. If you 
replace the Ibox winsock with another, when you run the programs they will 
no longer call the dialer to dial into the Internet. I believe the same 
holds true for Trumpet.

Wassail,
Al Billings