[43599] in Cypherpunks
Re: Design proposal: crypto-capable generic interface
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adam Shostack)
Sat Nov 18 09:40:00 1995
From: Adam Shostack <adam@homeport.org>
To: raph@c2.org (Raph Levien)
Date: Sat, 18 Nov 1995 09:41:27 -0500 (EST)
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <199511180842.AAA06560@infinity.c2.org> from "Raph Levien" at Nov 18, 95 00:42:21 am
Raph Levien wrote:
| I propose that the new interface lives as a sort of daemon, rather
| than a static collection of command line script pieces. A reasonable
| way for applications to talk to the daemon would be Unix domain
| sockets, or whatever the equivalent is on Mac and Windows
| platforms. There should be a simple protocol for automatically
| starting up a daemon if there isn't one already running.
A daemon per user, or per machine? Either way, I think you
run into problems on a big multi-user machine. (Either its an extra
process or two per person, or its a great target for attack &
subversion.
Its an interesting proposal, but let me ask you this--Why is
it better than a libpgp (or pgp.dll) that offers a variety of services
to programs at multiple levels (ie, offers full one call RSA/IDEA
encryption and compression, as well as ascii armoring, or offers each
of those as a seperate function.
--
"It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once."
-Hume
