Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 16:26:11 -0700 From: Greg Broiles <gbroiles@netbox.com>
At 03:16 PM 9/22/96 -0500, Adam Shostack wrote: ... I'm pottering around with a Java-based remailer that acts like a POP client so it can run on a client machine, not a Unix box; but other people should take that as a challenge to see if they can finish one before/better than me, not a reason to avoid writing one. Hal Finney has already done some very nice work with Java and mailing; see his home page (the address of which I don't have immediately at hand) for more details.
Hal is at http://www.portal.com/~hfinney/ . I have a prototype PGP-encryption implementation in Java, which I was intending to build into a remailer _client_ (I think remailers themselves will be better written in C for performance reasons, or at least the crypto portions); at first, for 'type I' remailers, then perhaps for mixmaster. The prototype, which just encrypts to a public key, has been put at http://www.ozemail.com.au/~geoffk/pke/ . I'd appreciate people looking over it, particularly the random number generation. [The prototype is actually somewhat useful. It's about as secure as downloading PGP in binary form... ] -- -Geoff Keating (geoffk@ozemail.com.au, Geoff.Keating@anu.edu.au)