From: Jason Martin <jhmartin@kent.wednet.edu>
Date: Wed, 1 May 1996 16:29:03 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Calling other code in Java applications and applets
Message-ID: <2.2.32.19960501042008.006aaac4@mailhost.kent.wednet.edu>
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At 10:12 AM 4/30/96 -0500, you wrote:
>I (and some others, I think) was hoping that it would be possible to build
>powerful crypto applets and put them up on web pages.  That way everyone 
>with a java enabled copy of Netscape could use a remailer or send crypted 
>mail without having to download, install, and configure software.

What with the concern of hacked or modified clients, I would think that
trusting a java applet someone put on their page would be rather difficult.
How could the user know that you weren't really sending their cleartext back
to you?

>If people have to download and install a plugin to use a java mixmaster
>applet, why not just download and install a native mixmaster client?

I have not seen a mixmaster client for the PC/Win95 yet.  Did I just miss it? 

>Of course there are other reasons to use java -- platform independence,
>for example. 

Remember that we can't really know if their applet is secure or just a
trojan horse.  
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