On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, Jack Coates wrote:
> On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, Charles Steinkuehler wrote:
>
> <snip>
> > Yeah, I think it's pretty big, plus I believe most of these packages require
> > openssl and other huge add-ons to run. The basics of public-key
> > cryptography, however, are pretty simple, so I think it'd be possible to
> > make a small (a few K, perhaps) binary that would simply calculate and
> > verify signatures, as long as there arn't too many various options to deal
> > with (ie no cert chains, or fancy stuff, just plain-old crypto signing).
> >
> [jack@felix jack]$ ll /usr/bin/gpg
> -rwsr-sr-x 1 root root 611132 May 30 2001 /usr/bin/gpg*
> [jack@felix jack]$ ll /usr/bin/gpgv
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 283932 May 30 2001 /usr/bin/gpgv*
>
> pretty hefty for a floppy, but not bad for CD.
Don't forget the use of ramdisk plus ram to execute in...
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