From: Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com>
Date: Thu, 4 Jul 1996 05:36:18 +0800
To: Derek Atkins <bshantz@nwlink.com
Subject: Re: Lack of PGP signatures
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At 11:09 AM -0400 7/3/96, Derek Atkins wrote:
> Is there an equivalent of OLE (AppleEvents, perhaps?)
> for the Mac?  It would be really cool if we could come up with a
> plug-in standard that gets put into mailers such that we could later
> add a PGP drop-in that performs the encryption using those standard
> interfaces.

Damn betcha. It's called OpenDoc, and it's probably the most exciting thing to happen to the Mac since desktop publishing. <plug> See my web-page for a rant or two on the subject. </plug>

Vinnie Moscaritolo (Famous ex-Marine and Samoan Attorney) started a list at mailto://majordomo@thumper.vmeng.com called mac-crypto (send "subscribe mac-crypto" in the body of the message), where we're talking about stuff like this, and other things. One of the projects we've been kicking around is a Macintosh Digital Commerce Conference ("Digital Commerce *is* Financial Cryptography", and all that...), and it looks like Vinnie's very close to getting a conference date set up.

A while ago, the folks working on the Macintosh Cryptography Interface Project merged their list with mac-crypto, so things have been getting interesting, even if traffic is a little sparse these days.  Getting a conference date firmed up should change that, we hope. So would a discussion of PGPlib in OpenDoc...

Cheers,
Bob Hettinga



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