In article <199311120422.UAA28483@mail.netcom.com> tcmay@netcom.com writes:
Of course, I notice that very few of us are writing any code these days. Some of the remailer wizards are still revising their code, and a few C-punks are trying to implement DC-Nets in code. But the vast majority of the 500+ folks on this List are either not writing crypto code, or are keeping silent about it.
Just FYI, I'm working on integrating pgp to the mailer that comes with 386bsd. I hacked it first a long time ago, and never gave it out because it had a lot of loose ends - now I'm tidying them up so that I can give it out and people won't have to be careful what they type to avoid some of the misfeatures...
The intent of the "Cypherpunks write code" line, if I can venture a motivation (it was of course Eric's line), is that we are more interested in seeing the Brave New Crypto World happen than in just jawboning about export laws, the Zimmmermann case, and whether libertarians are right and socialists are wrong.
The intent of 'Cypherpunks write code' is that Perry can dump on people talking about anything other than code ;-) (When we *do* talk about practical stuff he tells us its impractical or been done before or pointless, or that we should stop *talk*ing about it and go away and do it...) I'm surprised we bother running a list at all actually. We should all be locked away in our garrets hacking I guess. (What I'm really saying is that this list clearly serves a purpose, and it is evolving into its own character, whatever that may be, despite the efforts of the early founder members to keep it on some tightly defined track that they once conceived it as. I don't see this evolution as being a problem, and I'm slightly (though not to Detweilerian proportions) annoyed whenever people like Tim or Perry pull rank and try to limit the topics of discussion, when on closer inspection they're just as bad as the rest of us at drifting 'off topic'.) G