Bill Frantz writes:
You could hand any websurfer a Netscape PGP plugin without much work at all, and you could easily build it on lots of platforms. After all, look at how many platforms that lowly C code like PGP runs on.
Why don't we have one of these now? (N.B. not a rhetorical question)
I don't know. I suppose its because cypherpunks post stupid commentary on non-cryptographic issues. Perhaps you should suggest it as a project on CoderPunks.
I thought this was the effect the Unix people get when they run applications such as firewall code in a "chroot jail". Perhaps Netscape could make you happy by having its Unix based browsers run Java applet interpreters in such a jail. (I don't know, Unix is an imperfectly spoken foreign language to me.)
Chroot isn't a real solution for this sort of application. Perry