Well, you asked for feedback, here it is.
By month 24 after the release of your application you will have exactly
3 users, including yourself and your mother.
Unless you plan to support all the major IM protocols- and get crypto to
work inside each one- writing a brand new IM application with a new format
is a total waste of time. What I think escapes this group sometimes (often?)
is the Fax Machine Problem. One fax machine is useless. 90 million fax
machines are useful. This is why Gale is entirely useless for most people.
It might be cool and have great crypto but no one I know uses it.
There are like 15 different IM applications out there already. The only
ones any good for critical mass purposes are AIM, ICQ, Yahoo and MSN (in
that order).
Would someone PLEASE just write a simple strong symmetric (AES?) key crypto
plugin for AIM and/or ICQ?
How hard can it be to just copy out the text, encrypt it to a preentered
key, encrypt it and paste it back into the window when the user hits the
send button? Christ.
At Thu, 10 May 2001 23:35:20 -0000, "Wayne Rad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I'm writing a secure IM application, but it's for Windows. If
>anyone wants to volunteer to port to linux (or any other platform),
>I'd love you for it. And would vastly prefer that to doing a new
>effort since the port would be compatible with the Windows version,
>(the protocol is designed to be platform and language independent).
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