From: David Wuertele <dave@cave.gctech.co.jp>
Date: Fri, 10 Jan 1997 00:31:47 -0800 (PST)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: [IDEA] Cypherpunks Super Computer (was Re: The Upcoming DES   Challenge)
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"Frank O'Dwyer" <fod@brd.ie> writes:

> However, what if there was a safe scripting language with bignum
> arithmetic and other cryptographic primitives, and what if
> lots of people ran a service that would accept scripts in 
> that language and respond with the answer?  Say, a Safe-TCL 
> interface to Peter Gutmann's cryptlib, running at idle 
> priority?  Sort of like a distributed batch queue, and also 
> a bit like the way jobs are (were?) submitted to Crays.  The 
> Cypherpunks Super Computer. It need not be significantly slower 
> than raw code if the primitives are high level enough.

Perl 5.0 has a better, simpler, safety mode than Java (and probably Safe-TCL
too), and runs on more machines.  It is also the standard for CGI, so anyone
already running CGI could simply add a perl-based crypto service.

Dave