-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- I'm considering setting up a new FTP site dedicated to cryptography and security software, code, and information, with particular emphasis on personal microcomputer (even more particular emphasis on macintosh :) ) security. I'm sending this message to test the waters regarding how useful such a new site would be. I considered setting up a new PGP keyserver earlier, but the consensus of net.opinion when I asked about it seemed to be that there were plenty of keyservers that worked fine already, so I abandoned the idea. :-) Does anyone have an opinion they could send me regarding whether such a new site would be useful / would not be too useful? I'm looking to do something that would actually be useful to the net.community. For example, I'd like to scavenge the various crypto archives as well as public archives for programs to password-protect hard drives, encrypt files and volumes, monitor AppleShare access, do stegnanography, and so on. Of course, there are the old standbys as well: PGP, cryptanalysis, dictionaries, password crackers, interesting documentation and clippings from EMAIL and net.posts from people who know their stuff, and so on. The crypto stuff, folks would have to send me email establishing legal eligibility, whereupon I'd create for them a non-anonymous account. The non-crypto stuff would be in directories accessible to anonymous FTP login. This sounds like a lot of fun and I'd enjoy running it. However, if, like my keyserver idea, I wouldn't be doing anything really new or useful, it might just be a way for me to spend lots of time not getting much useful stuff done. :-) In particular, mail saying "Yeah, that sounds cool, I'd use it" would mean potential users. No mail to this effect would mean folk already have sufficient FTP resources. Any opinions appreciated. Tom tjb@acpub.duke.edu -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBLze6FluwJA7oL8O9AQGtGAQAxAXt1Fhw5IykRe7W4Ls09NvKePwL5l4t 43uwnEunDNUNWYpdPqVOAErb1RG4217RC2bXRkzwPiorPzxNP8X1IYdS81fQ1NZo 288OO3IJC0xvT3+YxglKerAfkHY5sfrihGKOysT/BZfxNSY6LM/8N38T2hyRyw/4 ZGE0o2KP4TQ= =XY/5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----