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Annoucement: Initial release of Poindexter is available
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James Moore)
Wed Mar 26 21:48:53 2003
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Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 18:47:14 -0800
From: James Moore <jam@wirerimmed.com>
To: cryptography@wasabisystems.com,
Cryptix-Users@lists.sourceforge.net
I'm pleased to announce the initial release of Poindexter.
http://wirerimmed.com/poindexter
Poindexter is a Java applet that provides the basic four functions of
PGP plus:
* It runs locally and does not require an internet connection
* It (theoretically) runs on any platform with a working Java Plug-in
* It's small enough to fit on a floppy disk along with your keys
* In limited testing, it interoperates with GnuPG and PGP 8
* Available source code
Poindexter has many weaknesses but the major ones are:
* Relies on the Java Plug-in
* Requires that Java security be crippled in order to run.
* It uses the Cryptix OpenPGP [1] libraries. These libraries are not
yet fully-baked
* It doesn't run out of the box due to java policy restrictions
* Passwords and keys can probably be harvested from memory on shared
machines
* Password input is not shielded
* No Web of Trust functions
With Poindexter I'm trying to fill a need that Tinfoil Hat Linux [2]
doesn't quite cover. Namely, users who want/need portable crypto but
are not technical enough to use Tinfoil.
Please try out this software and let me know what your feelings are on
it and it's purpose.
-James
[1] http://cryptix.org/products/openpgp/
[2] http://tinfoilhat.shmoo.com/
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