The need for FREE cryptography ...

Steve Davis strat at abc.ksu.ksu.edu
Mon Aug 30 04:03:41 PDT 1993


There is still a void in the arena of free public encryption systems for
regular human beings.  It would be wonderful if somebody would put a
reasonably secure package (much like PGP) and copyleft the source.  PGP has
never been a very useful tool to me as a programmer because of its internal
structure.  What I'd need, if I wanted to integrate this technology into
new platforms such as voice communication or an encrypted file system, is a
library of tools for shuffling this data around and piping it through the
"magic" algorithms.

I wonder if somebody on this list could outline what efforts are being made
in this area.

Stratocaster
-- 
                                               Steve Davis (strat at cis.ksu.edu)
                                                       Kansas State University
"[Nuclear Weapons] can't help but have an effect on the population as a whole."
    -- Ronald Reagan





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