So, what would be a "cypherpunk" thing you could do with Java? I know I can use it to download little applets to my system to do animations. What can it do to enhance my privacy? What would be the Java equivalent of PGP?

* Protocol Handler implement a remailer: URI that automagically communicates with remailers implement a pgp: URI that can decode pgp signed/encrypted text automagically. Use this to implement a server where users can post encrypted messages for other users, and the user, upon clicking the link, say pgp://rays_message_to_hal.html, gets the message automatically decoded. The encrypted text could even be HTML! implement an anonymous mailto: URI that works like mailto:, but uses an anonymous return block or blindserver automatically * Content Handlers implement a handler to decode PEM/RIPEM or any other kind of crypto MIME type implement a handler to check signatures, that way users could use a multipart message, the first part being a text/html or text/plain, the second part being a signature. The handler would automatically check the signature and notify the user that the content he is reading is authenticated (by beep, or icon, or title bar, whatever) * Applications Implement a Elm-like mailer app, complete with editor, that can send rfc822 normal mail, or, optionally, send thru any remailer chain at the click of a radio button Implement an object which can open a socket to key server or list of remailers server, get the list, display properties, etc The possibilities are endless. All of these things can be done in emacs, but unlike emacs, Java will be embedded into Netscape meaning the installed based of users will be much larger. -Ray