On Wed, Jan 14, 1998 at 12:49:52PM -0800, James A. Donald wrote:
-- 2 Since release there have been a very large number of hits on the Kong documents, and mere 102 downloads of the program, and 74 downloads of the source code.
The large number of source code downloads indicates that I am only reaching the crypto techie audience, that for the most part is already able to use PGP, not the non tech audience that Crypto Kong was designed for.
Ummm why reinvent the PGP wheel in an exclusively Win32 form? PGP (at least 2.x) has undergone peer review and seems secure. Is that true of your system? I don't wish to sound too negative and there are interesting features (small EC keys for one and smaller signatures). Another interesting and similar program is Pegwit which is portable code and also has these advantages. Pegwit http://ds.dial.pipex.com/george.barwood/v8/pegwit.htm But there is an intrastructure of PGP key servers and most people have PGP keys, already. Maybe we should be building on standards rather than building new ones. Of course PGP isn't GPLed but we will have g10 soon which will be real freeware and developed outside the USA to avoid legal problems ftp://ftp.guug.de/pub/gcrypt/g10-0.1.3.tar.gz Its *very* prebeta but maybe will become the cypherpunk program of choice. There is also a freeware SSH ("Psssst") planned I think by someone else. -- Steve