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1996-04-26 - Tcl Crypto [Was Re: Mindshare and Java]

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From: Mike Fletcher <fletch@ain.bls.com>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
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UTC Datetime: 1996-04-26 23:45:15 UTC
Raw Date: Sat, 27 Apr 1996 07:45:15 +0800

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From: Mike Fletcher <fletch@ain.bls.com>
Date: Sat, 27 Apr 1996 07:45:15 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Tcl Crypto [Was Re: Mindshare and Java]
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> The next phase will be to write (what I beleive to be) the first graphical
> PGP shell for X.

	Depends on what you mean by graphical PGP shell, but no.  Exmh
(Tk front end for the MH mail reader) has had PGP support for ages.

> I don't think TCL is suited to heavy-duty crypto applications, except as 
> an interface. Mostly because it is interpreted, though I'm not sure how 
> "everything is a string" would affect bignums. (And I wouldn't want to 
> write a TCL bignum library...)

	IF you really wanted to do such a thing, the best aproach would
be to do it as a C extension (so it could be dynamically loaded with
the new dl support) or if you're a real massochist do it in [incr tcl]
so that the bignums are objects (of a sort).

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