What Are Some Good Projects For Novices?

[Paul Rubin]

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?