From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
Date: Wed, 5 Jun 1996 16:24:42 +0800
To: frantz@netcom.com (Bill Frantz)
Subject: Re: Java
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Bill Frantz writes:
> >You could hand any websurfer a Netscape PGP plugin without much work
> >at all, and you could easily build it on lots of platforms. After all,
> >look at how many platforms that lowly C code like PGP runs on.
> 
> Why don't we have one of these now?  (N.B. not a rhetorical question)

I don't know. I suppose its because cypherpunks post stupid commentary
on non-cryptographic issues. Perhaps you should suggest it as a
project on CoderPunks.

> I thought this was the effect the Unix people get when they run
> applications such as firewall code in a "chroot jail".  Perhaps Netscape
> could make you happy by having its Unix based browsers run Java applet
> interpreters in such a jail.  (I don't know, Unix is an imperfectly spoken
> foreign language to me.)

Chroot isn't a real solution for this sort of application.

Perry