James Donald's comments

James Donald has claimed that I've been talking about vaporware and
that Netscape has produced "real cool crypto for the masses".

As I've noted, real code to implement proposals quite similar to IPSP
is out there right now, and has been for half a year. The reason that
it isn't very widely deployed is largely because we haven't been
pushing it because it isn't fully clean yet, not because it couldn't
be used. (It is indeed being used by real people with real
applications).

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Perry E. Metzger writes
> 
> James Donald has claimed that I've been talking about vaporware and
> that Netscape has produced "real cool crypto for the masses".

I am sorry if I seemed to be saying that:  I well know that that is
not true.

But right now today everyone one the net who sends out a form
through netscapes 0.96 web browser gets a warning that his form
is not encrypted, with the implication that it should be.

(Unless he turns off the warning.)

Thus millions of people are being exposed to cryptography.

What I meant to say is that Netscape is bringing Crypto to
the *masses* and you are not.

I did not intend to say that Netscape is bringing Crypto and
you are not.


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