[43647] in Cypherpunks
Re: ecash as pgp
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)
Sun Nov 19 18:47:01 1995
To: sameer <sameer@c2.org>
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com, support@marktwain.com
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 19 Nov 1995 03:18:04 PST."
<199511191118.DAA14424@infinity.c2.org>
Date: Sun, 19 Nov 1995 15:39:36 PST
From: Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU>
> Secondly, from what I can tell, it's like PGP. To integrate it
> into other software you have to do all sorts of nasty output
> parsing. why the hell can't it just produce nice, terse, informative,
> UNIX-like output?
This will change with PGP 3. There is a very nice, easy API for PGP 3
which I have been working on for over the last month. In fact, the
main processing code is done. After Tranksgiving I will be working on
an API document which explains the design and implementation of the
API.
IMHO, the API is REALLY EASY to use -- I have a PGP encryption program
which has all of the main functionality of PGP w.r.t. creating messages,
and the program is only 250 lines of commented C code.
The current work is far from complete, but it is getting close! It
should make integrating PGP into other programs very simple -- just
link against libpgp.a. :)
Enjoy!
-derek
