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In <347323FB(_dot_)B99EC09D(_at_)cs(_dot_)ucl(_dot_)ac(_dot_)uk>, on 11/19/97
at 12:38 PM, Ian Brown <I(_dot_)Brown(_at_)cs(_dot_)ucl(_dot_)ac(_dot_)uk>
said:
I have a proposal for the group in a effort to put the Ascii-Armor
question to rest.
I will release my subroutines w/source for ascii-armor encoding/decoding
into the public domain. That way everyone will have them available to use
as they wish free of charge.
Will this be an acceptable solution to the "problem"??
Such freely available toolkits already exist (see, for example,
http://www.systemics.com/software/cryptix-java/)
This does not alter the fact that implementors would need to download,
understand, and adapt such code to work in their subsequently bloated
application.
This has to be the silliest of excuses for not incorporating Ascii-Armour.
Exactly how many extra lines of code do you think it will take to
implement?? Compare that to the size of any Open-PGP implementation and
anyone can see this is a non-issue.
BTW: I did get a chuckle of you using a Java lib as an example. Anyone
writting a Java based app has bigger bloat problems than a couple of
ascii-armour routines to worry about. :)
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