[43503] in Cypherpunks
Re: NSA, ITAR, NCSA and plug-in hooks.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rev. Mark Grant)
Thu Nov 16 18:26:07 1995
Date: Thu, 16 Nov 1995 22:13:40 +0000 (GMT)
From: "Rev. Mark Grant" <mark@unicorn.com>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
On Thu, 16 Nov 1995, Scott Brickner wrote:
> You'd need a program which not only *accepted* the additional parameter,
> but also *needed* the second parameter. I confess I have some difficulty
> thinking of one.
How about command-line compression options. Gzip, for example, allows you
to specify how good you want the compression to be, with better
compression taking longer. So you could justify passing a set of options
to the compression algorithm, which could also be used to pass key
information to the encryption algorithm. In fact, you could pass in a
void * pointer to options that had been set up in a preferences panel in
the application, which would be provided by the plug-in compression or
encryption code. That structure could then have anything you wanted in it.
Also, I'm not sure you'd need to pass a key, surely the encryption code
could do all the key-handling itself ?
Mark
