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>At 09:59 AM 7/27/2000 -0700, Tim May wrote:
>> A kind of language for generating complex protocols was something
>> Eric Hughes and I discussed at length before even holding the first
>> meeting of what became the Cypherpunks group.
>
>Such a language would not be very useful. We have a lot of great
>crypto libraries, and with those libraries we can whip up any such
>protocol quite easily. The hard part is putting a cool user
>interface on the protocol, and marketing the resulting product.
On the contrary. Such a language--or such a set of reusable
objects with high level interfaces that can easily be used by average
or beginner programmers --think Logo-Crypto, or "HyperCard Crypto",
only more so--would enable those programmers to slap whatever piece
of shit gui they wanted on things, and as long as they didn't do
anything exceptionally dumb, their app would still be secure (for
certain values of secure).
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