From: Bill Stewart <stewarts@ix.netcom.com>
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 1997 05:27:41 +0800
To: Tim May <tcmay@got.net>
Subject: Re: cypherpunks coding challenge
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>>Perhaps a list of how many lines of code.  A hall of fame if you like:
>>% wc -l `find . -name \*.h -print -o -name \*.c -print`
>>Eric Young		SSL-eay		101,721 lines
>>PGP Inc			pgp30		    (?) lines
>>Phil Zimmermann & co	pgp263		 34,891 lines

>Not to be tedious about this, but why would "lines of code" be an
>interesting metric?

Yeah - I was thinking of the following entries:
  Adam Back             RSAperl		4 lines
  Adam Back et al.	RSAperl		2 lines

I don't think anybody's made a T-Shirt with SSLeay on it yet :-)

(Though actually SSLeay has been very useful to a lot of the
world's free cryptography, and has prompted the US spooks 
to pressure the Australian spooks into restricting crypto exports,
just as they've pressured the NZs into restricting them for
Peter Gutman, and have been trying to work on the Irish...)


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