At 12:29 PM -0800 11/4/01, Len Sassaman wrote:
I could keep throwing things off the top of my head -- but shouldn't we
have some formal system for listing all of this?
Yes.
Both Brian Smith and John Kane have volunteered to maintain the
information. I've asked them to collaborate on maintaining the
pages. My preference is we set something up under openpgp.org site.
openpgp.org is a computer at Phil Zimmermann's house. There's other
stuff I would like to see there, but interoperability info would be a
Real Good Thing to get 2440 to DRAFT.
I have a program to contribute which will read openpgp files and
report on their structure. John Callas wrote the original version,
and I've been updating it for 2440. It's not a complete
implementation of 2440. But it locates packet boundaries, identifies
packet types, and describes the plaintext portions of packets.
If people send me files, I'll run them through my parser, and tell
you what happens. The program runs on my Mac, but should be
reasonably portable to other systems. I'll publish it on
openpgp.org, as soon as we make a suitable place. I've heard tell of
similar programs, but I don't have particular knowledge of any.
--
john noerenberg
jwn2(_at_)qualcomm(_dot_)com
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While the belief we have found the Answer can separate us
and make us forget our humanity, it is the seeking that continues
to bring us together, the makes and keeps us human.
-- Daniel J. Boorstin, "The Seekers", 1998
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