What Are Some Good Projects For Novices?

[phil hunt]

On Sun, 19 Aug 2001 19:01:45 +0200, Michael Ströder <michael at stroeder.com> wrote:
>phil hunt wrote:
>> 
>> On 19 Aug 2001 00:34:15 -0700, Paul Rubin <phr-n2001 at nightsong.com> wrote:
>> >philh at comuno.freeserve.co.uk (phil hunt) writes:
>> >> Ones you find interesting.
>> >>
>> >> For example, if you are interested in email encryption, you might
>> >> want to have a look at my herprip program,
>> >> <http://www.vision25.demon.co.uk/oss/herbivore/herbrip.html>.
>> >
>> >Is there some reason you've defined your own protocol instead of just
>> >using S/MIME or OpenPGP?
>> 
>> My understanding of OpenPGP is that it doesn't provide for automatic
>> transmission of public keys
>
>Hmm, note that verifying the authenticity of public keys prior of
>using them for encryption or signature verification is an essential
>part of using public-key cryptography.

Why do you say that?

BTW, verification in Herbivore vwill be possible, but will be 
optional.

>> my goal is to make encryption totally effort-free for the user
>
>IMHO not doable.

IMO it is doable in principle if you discount man-in-the-middle 
attacks.


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