(John... copy this to crypto newsgroups... thx) Hello Alex, Everyone is getting the story wrong. LockNuts has not been sold, yes there was an offer made, but it was declined. Somebody is talking but getting the story wrong... when we designed LockNuts we wrote most of the package in portable C which does run on Linux, however the package as its distributed is designed for Windows solely because the top layer is COM and that's pretty much a Windows thing. We do not distribute the pure C interface mainly because it supports many algs and we dont want users to have to be a rocket scientist to use it. The high level COM interface hides the complex stuff and lets the user get on with the application, without trading strength for ease. We were asked if we would bring out a compatible Corba/Linux version, however we have no current expertise in that area, and there is no financial incentive... so the answer is, yes it can be done, but we don't intend doing it anytime soon. Our target platform is VBA and JAVA, at present. We will test and develop a version on C# (should be predominantly sample code) however will wait sometime for those waters to cool a little. I thank you for your interest in LockNuts... and assure everyone... it has not been sold. Kind Regards JR Taylor (CEO) www.kewlstuff.co.za http://johnnyco.www4.50megs.com/ ----- Original Message ----- From: *deleted* To: *deleted* Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2001 11:41 PM Subject: Is LockNuts being sold? > Dear Sir, > > We use your product extensively and have heard rumor that the whole package > is for sale. > Additionally that a Russian consortium has made an offer for the source > but it doesn't run on Linux, the deal fell through, or something > like that? > > Please let me know what is happening? > > Thank you > Alex *deleted* >
