-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- At 10:12 AM 4/30/96 -0500, you wrote:
I (and some others, I think) was hoping that it would be possible to build powerful crypto applets and put them up on web pages. That way everyone with a java enabled copy of Netscape could use a remailer or send crypted mail without having to download, install, and configure software.
What with the concern of hacked or modified clients, I would think that trusting a java applet someone put on their page would be rather difficult. How could the user know that you weren't really sending their cleartext back to you?
If people have to download and install a plugin to use a java mixmaster applet, why not just download and install a native mixmaster client?
I have not seen a mixmaster client for the PC/Win95 yet. Did I just miss it?
Of course there are other reasons to use java -- platform independence, for example.
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