[90489] in Cypherpunks
Re: cryptx spam - des-based program.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adam Shostack)
Wed Nov 19 13:26:58 1997
From: Adam Shostack <adam@homeport.org>
In-Reply-To: <3473229E.6BC5E22A@systemics.com> from Ian Grigg at "Nov 19, 97 05:32:14 pm"
To: iang@systemics.com (Ian Grigg)
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 1997 12:41:45 -0500 (EST)
Cc: adam@homeport.org, coolio@AIMARKET.COM, cypherpunks@toad.com,
sales@crypt-x.com, support@crypt-x.com, remove@ultra-mail.com,
cryptx@ultra-mail.com, "e$"@thumper.vmeng.com
Reply-To: Adam Shostack <adam@homeport.org>
Ian Grigg wrote:
| Adam Shostack wrote:
| >
| > As the maintainer of the free crypto libraries page
| > (www.homeport.org/~adam/crypto), I'm strongly tempted to refuse to add
| > any new library whose name starts with crypt.
|
| I'd be interested to hear your reasons for this. Is it a comment on
| crowding or on the use of the generic? Looking at your page, I guess
| it's the overcrowding: Crypto++ CryptoLib CryptLib Cryptix. Try
| swapping the columns to intersperse the crypt-cartel.
Its the overuse of the generic. Cryptolib and Cryptlib are
different. Quick, who wrote which? I can't keep it straight. (I
have web pages for that. :) I can distinguish out BSAFE and SSLeay.
Crowding is only a small problem. If the names were better,
it would not be an issue. The ordering on the page is the order I
created them, and it will not be changed due to the inordinate effort
required to change an HTML table.
Adam
--
"It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once."
-Hume
