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Any talk of limiting _existing_ crypto? (fwd)
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> Date: Thu, 11 Sep 1997 21:39:52 -0700
> From: Tim May <[email protected]>
> Subject: Any talk of limiting _existing_ crypto?
> If not, then our strategy should be to get the simpler, text-centric,
> crypto programs massively and widely deployed. Spend the year or so we have
> before D-Day getting crypto onto every CD-ROM being distributed, every
> public domain site, etc.
>
> Integration with mailers and browsers may not even be such a good idea, as
> the evolution of such products will cause obsolescence. Better, perhaps, to
> leave the crypto at the "text edit" level, the ASCII level, where it can be
> dropped in cleanly to whatever program is current. (Also an old strategy,
> one with many advantages.)
How about the system file i/o level?
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