Jerry Leichter <[email protected]> writes: > While I agree with the sentiment and the theory, I'm not sure that it > really works that way. How many actual implementations of typical > protocols are there?
I'm aware of at least four TCP/IP implementations in common use, several common HTTP servers (though there are far more uncommon ones), at least four or six common web browsers (depending on whether you count the several that use webkit as a single implementation or not), a half dozen jpeg libraries, three different opentype implementations, etc., etc. > One way or another, a single implementation usually wins out in the > OSS community. See above -- even counting only open source, we have *many* implementations. Heck, there are even multiple independent open source SSL, SSH and PGP implementations. Perry --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [email protected]
