Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM wrote:
Apple computer is dead, for all intents and purposes. It will be "officially" dead (bankrupt) within a couple of years. Writing any sort of software for the Mac - crypto or otherwise - is a waste of time.
If you accept that, then doesn't that make writing crypto software for any Unix platform *even more* of a waste of time? Because last time I checked, there were way more Macs on mom-and-pop's desks than Unix machines, counting *all* vendors. Even if Apple folded *tomorrow*, those machines wouldn't vaporize. If you put easy-to-use strong crypto on a significant fraction of those desks six months from now, your work could easily have a lifetime of a year and a half even in your worst case scenario. (PS, I haven't used a Mac since 1985, so that's not why I say this.) -- Jamie Zawinski jwz@netscape.com http://www.netscape.com/people/jwz/ ``A signature isn't a return address, it is the ASCII equivalent of a black velvet clown painting; it's a rectangle of carets surrounding a quote from a literary giant of weeniedom like Heinlein or Dr. Who.'' -- Chris Maeda