Someone who has never produced a really cool piece of software that brings crypto to the masses wrote:
But no, you [Netscape] blindly forge ahead, so full of yourself that you blissfully reinvent wheels (Perry), miss the real concerns of the users (Me), disrupt the marketplace (Amanda), and generally fail to think things through very well (Adam) or consider the work of others (Perry).
Your three biggest problems are: arrogance, arrogance and arrogance.
Kipp E.B. Hickman writes
[Netscape's] intention is to support any development effort attempting to implement an SSL conformant implementation. We will work with you to repair the spec as needed to eliminate any errors or ommisions, and help you test your implementation to ensure that it interoperates with ours.
Guys, this is the greatest news. How come the cypherpunks list is not singing and dancing and saying how great this is, instead of whining and bitching because Netscape is not all the way there yet. -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- We have the right to defend ourselves and our property, because of the kind of animals that we James A. Donald are. True law derives from this right, not from the arbitrary power of the omnipotent state. jamesd@netcom.com