Re: Why PGP isn't so ubiquitous (was NRC Session Hiss)
On 3 Jun 96 at 11:27, Bruce Baugh wrote:
Date: Mon, 03 Jun 1996 11:27:33 -0700 At 04:33 AM 6/3/96 +0000, Deranged Mutant wrote:
In part because it's not well integrated with mailers. That could change with a PGP3 DLL.
I have a growing feeling that PGP 3 is never going to happen. Or that if it
I'm soft-of having that feeling too. Or what's going to happen is that enough people will get impatient and international versions will start to appear.
does, it will happen only after the passage of more draconian anti-privacy laws, and the guys working on it will be forced to include sundry backdoor stuff or drop it altogether.
More likely drop it altogether, or be openly admit they were forced to include GAK (people will want the source, anyway).
I suspect someone could do quite nicely by going ahead and developing a 2.6.2 or 2.6.3 DLL.
There's been talk. But just talk. Rob. --- No-frills sig. Befriend my mail filter by sending a message with the subject "send help" Key-ID: 5D3F2E99 1996/04/22 wlkngowl@unix.asb.com (root@magneto) AB1F4831 1993/05/10 Deranged Mutant <wlkngowl@unix.asb.com> Send a message with the subject "send pgp-key" for a copy of my key.
I have a growing feeling that PGP 3 is never going to happen. Or that if it
I'm soft-of having that feeling too. Or what's going to happen is that enough people will get impatient and international versions will start to appear.
Unfortunately the 80-20 rule is hitting the PGP development team really hard. We had 80% of the code done about 6 months ago, and it's been taking a LONG time to get the other 20% up to speed. This is a COMPLETE re-write of the whole system, from scratch, from the bottom up (and top down). It was NOT a small feat, and it takes time. As it is I feel rushed to get it out the door. I know that I need to make the API document available, and I'm working to do that. But I have to offset the time I spend coding to the time I spend working on the API document(s) to the time I spend jumping through hoops to make the PGPlib project happen. The more time I spend working on one part, the longer it takes for the other parts to happen. So, would you rather see a document right away, or code released sooner? Take your pick and let me know. :) -derek
So, would you rather see a document right away, or code released sooner? Take your pick and let me know. :)
-derek
I'd rather see more good people working on it. -- "Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies, The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." - C.S. Lewis, _God in the Dock_ +---------------------+--------------------+----------------------------------+ |Julian Assange RSO | PO Box 2031 BARKER | Secret Analytic Guy Union | |proff@suburbia.net | VIC 3122 AUSTRALIA | finger for PGP key hash ID = | |proff@gnu.ai.mit.edu | FAX +61-3-98199066 | 0619737CCC143F6DEA73E27378933690 | +---------------------+--------------------+----------------------------------+
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