Re: The Cypherpunks Mail Project

In message <9211251705.AA17774@soda.berkeley.edu> you write:
>
> It is also my suspicion that simple PGP decryption support is fairly
> straightforward, being mostly the ability to run a command on a block
> and replace the block with the output of the pipe.  

I'd like to chip in here, in my _very_ newbie way, that not 
everybody is running a unix system with the ability to pipe 
things between processes in so facile a manner. I access the net 
through a dial up from a MS-Dos machine running KA9Q software. My 
PGP is of the stand alone sort. I cannot easily get a new mailer 
to run on this system. Whatever protocol is decided upon, it 
would be useful if it were not too host-system specific.

[FX Crawls back under stone]

Tony
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Tony writes:
>I access the net 
>through a dial up from a MS-Dos machine running KA9Q software. My 
>PGP is of the stand alone sort. 

I myself read my own mail on an MSDOS machine acting as a terminal
over a dialin.  The unix host is not overly secure, and I'm not about
to go putting keys on it.  I've been thinking about how to solve my
own encryption problem, you can be sure.

But most of the people on the list are reading mail on Unix machines,
and a simple piping interface is the first thing to implement.  I myself
may not use it at first, but it is a start.

Eric