Ian Grigg wrote: | Adam Shostack wrote: | > | > As the maintainer of the free crypto libraries page | > (www.homeport.org/~adam/crypto), I'm strongly tempted to refuse to add | > any new library whose name starts with crypt. | | I'd be interested to hear your reasons for this. Is it a comment on | crowding or on the use of the generic? Looking at your page, I guess | it's the overcrowding: Crypto++ CryptoLib CryptLib Cryptix. Try | swapping the columns to intersperse the crypt-cartel. Its the overuse of the generic. Cryptolib and Cryptlib are different. Quick, who wrote which? I can't keep it straight. (I have web pages for that. :) I can distinguish out BSAFE and SSLeay. Crowding is only a small problem. If the names were better, it would not be an issue. The ordering on the page is the order I created them, and it will not be changed due to the inordinate effort required to change an HTML table. Adam -- "It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once." -Hume