[866] in Cypherpunks
Re: Term software develo
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Geoff Dale)
Fri Jun 4 19:55:55 1993
Date: Fri, 4 Jun 93 16:40:49 -0700
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
From: gdale@apple.com (Geoff Dale)
>I've been thinking about what kind of an API could be negotiated
>between terminal-program authors and encryption-mechanism authors.
>
>Suppose a terminal program looks for resources (using macintosh-like
>terminology for a moment) of some type 'Encr', and load them.
>It expects to find subroutines there, that the
>cypherpunk can add to any conforming terminal emulator.
>Something like this:
>
> resource #1: function initialize() -- grab resources
> resource #2: function set_key(char key[8])
> resource #3: function encrypt(long block_no, char block[8])
> resource #4: function decrypt(long block_no, char block[8])
> resource #5: function finalize() -- shutdown, release resources
>
Woops, this is what I get by not reading all my mail before posting. I just
posted the same suggestion with considerably less detail.
Anyway, I second what henry says.
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