shamrock@netcom.com (Lucky Green) wrote on Tuesday, 18 Jul 1995:
As to the problem of not having 24-7 connectivity, you could either use the WWW page, or the server (it will do this anyway) will keep re-trying to get a socket connect to the master until it suceeds, so when you next go on-line ... wham it gets through again as connectivity is resumed and says whatever it has been trying to say. We need it to retry in case of network out (or horror) big master falling over, until it gets resumed.
On many machines that will mean that it will try to initiate a connection to the host. Please allow for a manual connect option.
While we're suggesting features, how about including something (on the networked version) which performs a quick sanity check on any clients so we know they're not bogus, ie send one or more known plaintext/ciphertext pairs with corresponding keys to verify the correctness of the compilation.