From: Adam Shostack <adam@homeport.org>
Date: Sun, 17 Nov 1996 05:49:42 -0800 (PST)
To: attila@primenet.com
Subject: Re: San Jose Mercury News declares encryption battle over
In-Reply-To: <199611170747.AAA27780@infowest.com>
Message-ID: <199611171346.IAA02035@homeport.org>
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	I agree wholeheartedly.  In fact, to make it easier to find
libraries, I created a page with links to 7 libraries with at least
one pubic key system & one private key system included.

www.homeport.org/~adam/crypto

	The tools are out there.

Adam


attila@primenet.com wrote:
| In <328E8BEC.2D76@gte.net>, on 11/16/96
|    at 07:52 PM, Dale Thorn <dthorn@gte.net> said:
| 
| ::Point 2: I've said something like this before, but here's a place where
| ::it could mean something.  If c-punks and others could divvy up as many
| ::of the supporting functions of "strong" crypto as possible, and issue
| ::them in a set of commonly-available libraries for any and all programmers,
| ::along with source code, then an application programmer (theoretically)
| ::could order up some of these libraries and write some useful crypto code
| ::in short order.
| ::
|         one of the best proposals in many years --we have all made good
|     use of library code over the years, unless the simpleton coder has a
|     obsessive-compulsive masochistic need to write an extra 20-50,000
|     lines of 'reinvent the wheel' code.
| 
|         there are several linkable libraries floating around, with
|     multiple types, etc.  the only one I looked at a couple of years
|     ago needed some extensive work on its calling and return
|     conventions --ever hear of structures?


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