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Re: GUI: PGP vs novices
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>There is also the problem that a number of applications (such as Internet in
>a Box) require there own Winsock to make connections to the Internet. If you
>replace the Ibox winsock with another, when you run the programs they will
>no longer call the dialer to dial into the Internet. I believe the same
>holds true for Trumpet.
I only have familiarity with the commercial Netmanage Chameleon Winsock
implementation. Someone else had let me know about this potential
difficulty. Apparently some Winsock stacks only provide a WINSOCK.DLL for
3rd party compatibility, i.e., their own applications talk to proprietary
hooks into their stack for performance or other reasons. Netmanage's products
do both; they perform their network I/O through WINSOCK.DLL, but also use
a variety of shared library functions supplied with the rest of the stack. In
this case, my WINSOCK.DLL shim works fine. Remember, I'm not replacing a
given implementation's DLL, just intercepting and passing through calls to
it. So as long as a mail application uses exclusively standards based
Windows Sockets API calls _to perform network I/O_, my product should work.
YMMV, of course :)
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