I was most taken by the idea of a "Crypto Toolkit". I think it would be understand- able to write the code in plain, vanilla C (as opposed to C++). One good reason is the widespread availability of C compilers, especially with UNIX. Additionally, C++ compilers do take up more space (although this would be more of an issue with PCs.
I think Tim had in mind something that was accessible more from a higher- level language than C or C++; ideally, something interpreted so you could sit down and type in a few commands to get something useful. Perl and TCL are two languages which Tim mentioned and which have been discussed here in the past. Smalltalk might do, although it is not as "freely" avail- able.
Yes, this is mostly what I meant. Lots of stuff here, and I really should use my outline processor to do a better job of outlining options, routes, and miscellaneous points. But I'll just make a few notes here. (The theme of the next Cypherpunks meeting, date not yet finalized, is "Protocols," so issues like this are presumably relevant. Depending on the date, I may be in LEA., and would welcome meeting with other Southland Cpunks to discuss ideas.)
I wrote a cryptographic scripting language that has been implemented in a commercial product. I hesitate to post it here due to its length. If there is a place to send it where it can be archived for public down-load, I could do that. I am in the process of writing it up for a symposium, but have other things that I would rather do. If I could modify it to improve it's integration w/ telescript, I would like to do it, but I don't have telescript, does anyone here have it? Peace