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Re: [IDEA] Cypherpunks Super Computer (was Re: The Upcoming DES Challenge)
"Frank O'Dwyer" <[email protected]> writes:
> However, what if there was a safe scripting language with bignum
> arithmetic and other cryptographic primitives, and what if
> lots of people ran a service that would accept scripts in
> that language and respond with the answer? Say, a Safe-TCL
> interface to Peter Gutmann's cryptlib, running at idle
> priority? Sort of like a distributed batch queue, and also
> a bit like the way jobs are (were?) submitted to Crays. The
> Cypherpunks Super Computer. It need not be significantly slower
> than raw code if the primitives are high level enough.
Perl 5.0 has a better, simpler, safety mode than Java (and probably Safe-TCL
too), and runs on more machines. It is also the standard for CGI, so anyone
already running CGI could simply add a perl-based crypto service.
Dave