---------------- Begin Forwarded Message ---------------- Date: 02/25/01 8:10 PM Received: 02/25/01 8:18 PM From: Gordon Worley, redbird@rbisland.cx To: macsec@macsecurity.org I hope that this message will be appropriate for the list. If it's not, just let me know and I won't post anything like this again. I've started a project on Sourceforge to create a Mac OS X front end, inter application services, and an easy install method for GnuPG. After a bit of work, I managed to get GPG running on my machine, but it was too hard for someone whose casually interested in security (much less doesn't know why ve should care, as the majority of compuer users do). I don't mean that it required a lot of security knowledge, but it did require some Unix knowledge that the average Mac user just doesn't have and probably wouldn't pick up just to get GPG installed. Anyway, once GPG is easy to install, then the project will move on to inter application services, so that from any program on Mac OS X text can be encrypted. This is my main interest in the project, but I figured I'd scratch some other people's itches while I'm at it. Finally, the project will work on a front end for Mac OS X so that J. Random User won't have to get down and dirty with the command line. Now, you may ask yourself, why am I posting all of this here. Well, Mac GPG is free software (or, less accurately but more familar, open source). Thus, I'm looking to the list for developers. The Web site for the project is <http://macgpg.sourceforge.net/> and the project page is <http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/macgpg/>. If anyone out there would like to help, check out those links, sign up with Sourceforge if you haven't already, and send me a message letting me know what you'd like to work on and be sure to include your Sourceforge user name so I can add you to the project. There are some jobs posted on the project page, and if you meet those descriptions I'd *really* like to have you on the project. Okay, that's pretty much it. With a little luck and hard work, in a few weeks we should have something to make Mac OS X much nicer to live in. Maybe we'll even time it right and come out just after the official release of OS X. That would be great. Thanks. -- Gordon Worley http://www.rbisland.cx/ mailto:redbird@rbisland.cx Public Key: C462 FA84 B811 3501 9010 20D2 6EF3 77F7 BBD3 B003 _______________________________________________ Macsec mailing list Macsec@macsecurity.org http://www.macsecurity.org/mailman/listinfo/macsec ----------------- End Forwarded Message ----------------- --- end forwarded text -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah@ibuc.com> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'