[117110] in Cypherpunks
Re: PGP source and binaries comparisons, and vain and degrading
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (steve bryan)
Thu Aug 26 16:23:36 1999
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Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 14:59:31 -0500
To: Petro <petro@suba.com>
From: steve bryan <sbryan@vendorsystems.com>
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Reply-To: steve bryan <sbryan@vendorsystems.com>
> "Non-trivial" as in difficult, As in time consuming. As in
>just grab the fucking source and cc it yourself. If you are on a
>Mac, get a copy of CodeWarrior and spend an hour learning how to
>compile something. It's not that tough--even on a Mac.
I assume you meant to type: "It's not that easy--even on a Mac." for
your last sentence? I would agree that this is a reasonable task only
if you already own and use the compiler used by PGP (Metrowerks in
the case of the Mac version). I certainly didn't mean to claim that
it would be trivial for a non-programmer, only that the objections
raised about optimization, library version, etc in practise have not
been the problem you might have suspected.
I do hope that as many people as possible participate in this sort of
review process so we can elevate the level of discourse about which
threats are real and which are fanciful.
