[43500] in Cypherpunks
Re: NSA, ITAR, NCSA and plug-in hooks.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rich Salz)
Thu Nov 16 18:02:28 1995
From: Rich Salz <rsalz@osf.org>
Date: Thu, 16 Nov 1995 17:35:29 -0500
To: jimbell@pacifier.com, owner-cypherpunks@toad.com
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
Status: R
>as a compression program, but there's a key difference: the text
>compressor *doesn't* need a key.
Sure, 12 14 16, etc., bits as in the classic unix compress program.
>The encryption tool would have an interface like
> Boolean (*)( DataSource, DataSink, void*);
>
>A compressor written to the same interface would never need to touch
>that third argument. Therefore, the second argument is "specifically
>designed" to permit an encryption tool to be used.
Not at all. coyping inbuf to output is a common practice, it's quite
rare that you often compress in-place.
/r$
