"Frank O'Dwyer"
However, what if there was a safe scripting language with bignum arithmetic and other cryptographic primitives, and what if lots of people ran a service that would accept scripts in that language and respond with the answer? Say, a Safe-TCL interface to Peter Gutmann's cryptlib, running at idle priority? Sort of like a distributed batch queue, and also a bit like the way jobs are (were?) submitted to Crays. The Cypherpunks Super Computer. It need not be significantly slower than raw code if the primitives are high level enough.
Perl 5.0 has a better, simpler, safety mode than Java (and probably Safe-TCL too), and runs on more machines. It is also the standard for CGI, so anyone already running CGI could simply add a perl-based crypto service. Dave