Autocoding project proposal.

[phil hunt]

On Sat, 26 Jan 2002 13:40:22 -0500, Peter Hansen <peter at engcorp.com> wrote:
>phil hunt wrote:
>> How can I write a summary of something i don't understand? Obviously
>> I cannot. Instead I will point you to something I have written that
>> I consider easy to understand (YMMV -- if so tell me):
>> 
>> <http://www.vision25.demon.co.uk/oss/herbivore/intro.html>
>> 
>> Particularly the example given in the coloured box:
>
>See, Timothy, I went to Phil's site, even before I realized he had
>posted exactly that example into the message.  I read the example
>(because it was short and it appeared likely I would be able to
>understand it).  I believe I do understand it.
>
>As a result, with only a few seconds reading (and no doubt more
>than a couple of minutes of writing on Phil's part) I can communicate
>to you that Herbivore is a framework for encrypting emails with
>public-key cryptography which functions in such a way that it 
>is generally transparent to the users for regular use.  That is
>doubtless incomplete, but I hope essentially accurate.

Your summary is correct.

>And I say "brilliant!".  That would be a very good way to 
>get secure mail into the hands of a much wider audience, and
>had I the time I would jump on board to help with this project.
>I might even try to use it myself when I stumble across an
>announcement of a beta release or something.

There'll be a semi-usable alpha release within a week. IOW, good
enough to test, and it will actually do encryption and decryption,
but don't use it in anger.

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