Re: consulting question.... (DRM)

2009-05-27 Thread Nathan Loofbourrow
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 2:01 AM, Darren J Moffat darren.mof...@sun.com wrote:
 John Gilmore wrote:

 It's only the DRM fanatics whose installed bases of customers
 are mentally locked-in despite the crappy user experience (like
 the brainwashed hordes of Apple users, or the Microsoft victims)
 who are troublesome.  In such cases, the community should

 I assume the Apple reference here is aimed at iTunes.  You do know that
 iTunes Music Store no longer uses any DRM right ?

For the music, that's true, but not for the other items sold there
(movies, TV shows, and especially not iPhone apps, as any iPhone
developer who's jumped through those DRM hoops will tell you).

n

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Re: Haskell crypto

2005-11-30 Thread Nathan Loofbourrow

Haskell is a strongly typed functional language with type inference,
much like ML; its key difference from ML is that is purely functional,
allowing it to use lazy evaluation.

I'm not sure how that illuminates the original message, except to note
that I agree that coding in Haskell is quite fun and addictive.

In addition to traditional crypto conference, he might also consider
submitting to POPL or SIGLANG if the implementation has features unique
to Haskell.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haskell_programming_language

nathan


Ian G wrote:

Someone mailed me with this question, anyone know
anything about Haskell?

 Original Message 

I just recently stepped into open source cryptography directly, rather
than just as a user.  I'm writing a SHA-2 library completely in
Haskell, which I recently got a thing for in a bad way.  Seems to me
that nearly all of the message digest implementations out there are
written in C/C++, or maybe Java or in hw as an ASIC, but I can't find
any in a purely functional programming language, let alone in one that
can have properties of programs proved.  Haskell can, and also has a
very good optimizing compiler.  I'm not sure where to submit for
publication when I'm done and have it all written up, though!

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