Greg Broiles wrote: | At 03:16 PM 9/22/96 -0500, Adam Shostack wrote: | | > A real Mac port of Mixmaster, that integrated with Claris | >EMailer and Eudora would be a huge boon to the millions of Mac users | >out there. I have no doubt that Vinnie's mac crypto conference talked | >a lot about this sort of thing. | | Actually, the Mac crypto conference didn't spend any time at all on | Mixmaster - which is not intended as a criticism of either the conference | or of Mixmaster, but it just didn't happen. (By this sort of thing, I was refering more to the privacy apps 'integrated with Claris EMailer and Eudora,' which you go on to discuss. I think that a remailer client needs to be integrated with the usual mail tools, not seperate.) | I gave a very short talk and said that I thought the Mac needed three apps, | for people who wanted to jump in a write something useful to the cause of | privacy on the net and didn't want to reinvent any wheels: a remailer | client with a good user interface, a Mac-native remailer, and an | implementation of DC-nets. Mixmaster would, of course, address two of those | three. Lucky tells me that there is already a Mac implementation of | DC-nets, but it doesn't seem to be very well known. I don't know of any DC net implementation, and would be really eager to hear Lucky expound on this. | For what it's worth, I think future remailer/Mixmaster development might do | well in Java. I'm not especially sold on or trusting of the alleged | security or trustability features of Java (sorry, no offense) but I *do* | think it's a neat tool for building non-machine specific network aware | applications. Ignore the fact that people use it to build silly animations | or that downloadaded applets may or may not be secure - it's still useful | as a development tool. I agree, especially if we write a protocol that allows a user to connect to a mixmaster, get a pool of messages, and remail them on to their destanation, along with a message of his own. (This is a half baked idea; there are obvious denial of service issues, as well as reliability issues in the well intentioned cases.) Adam -- "It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once." -Hume