17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
On Thu, 9 Nov 1995, Scott Staedeli wrote: [David Harris:] [...]
will define an open interface for third-party encryptors and it is then up to other people to write the code. What I envisage actually happening is people writing "shell interfaces" for WinPMail - i.e., modules that take the calls I make and translate them into calls to other programs, such as PGP or whatever, returning the result.
Is anybody currently writing modules for PGP (or, less trivially, for MOSS, S/MIME etc.)? I've had a look at the interface and it doesn't seem difficult, but why re-invent the wheel? :-) The real question for PGP, actually, is which scheme should be supported to achieve MIME compatibility among the several proposed in the IETF drafts.