[6455] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Re: More BXA mail about regs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Russell Nelson)
Fri Jan 21 13:22:26 2000
From: Russell Nelson <nelson@crynwr.com>
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Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2000 13:05:00 -0500 (EST)
To: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net, cryptography@c2.net
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Phil Karn writes:
> So it appears that there is now a significant difference in the
> treatment of source code and object code, even object code compiled
> from open source already on the net. Am I correct?
Yes, but I don't see how it matters. Arrange for the crypto to happen
in an external program, and write that program in Perl or Python,
where the source code *is* the object code.
> What about the "open cryptographic interface" provision?
Doesn't seem like an impediment to me. Crypto decoding in email is
just a special case of MIME decoding, or uudecoding. If you were
clever with the API, it wouldn't be a crypto API, it would be a
general purpose content modification API.
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