Erik Quanstrom wrote: // i think a better route would be to build s/mime compatable signatures // and encryption into upas/fs and upas/marshal so applications without // a need to know would not have to know.
i'm not really sure what you mean by that. certainly we shouldn't require the content-producing programs (like, say, 'cat') to know anything about encryption, but that idea's already totally foreign to plan 9 (cat --enable-encryption-with-aes-cbc?). having s/mime in upas would be wonderful, but doesn't fully address the needs being discussed. i want to be able to store files on disk securely, including across platforms. for that, i want a stand-alone program (hopefully, one which could then be used in upas).
