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Re: A wee bit of spook-humor (was re S/MIME Freeware Library)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (EKR)
Tue Jul 20 13:03:10 1999
To: Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com>
Cc: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net, cryptography@c2.net, dcsb@ai.mit.edu,
Digital Bearer Settlement List <dbs@philodox.com>
From: EKR <ekr@rtfm.com>
Date: 20 Jul 1999 09:45:23 -0700
In-Reply-To: Robert Hettinga's message of "Thu, 15 Jul 1999 11:52:13 -0400"
Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com> writes:
> Or at least a bad joke.
>
> (Excuse me, while I wipe the atomized remains of a latte off my
> monitor and keyboard...)
Huh?
Seems to me that Van Dyke is doing the world a service. This
is a free S/MIME library that implements the standard
algorithms.
It also happens to implement KEA and FORTEZZA [1], but I don't see how
this makes the product any less useful for public use.
What exactly is your problem with this, Bob?
-Ekr
[1] Not surprising, since Van Dyke did the development under contract
to the Feds.
