Re: Ascii Armor solution?

["William H. Geiger III" <whgiii@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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In <347323FB.B99EC09D@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, on 11/19/97 
   at 12:38 PM, Ian Brown <I.Brown@xxxxxxxxxxxx> said:

>> I have a proposal for the group in a effort to put the Ascii-Armor
>> question to rest.
>> 
>> I will release my subroutines w/source for ascii-armor encoding/decoding
>> into the public domain. That way everyone will have them available to use
>> as they wish free of charge.
>> 
>> Will this be an acceptable solution to the "problem"??

>Such freely available toolkits already exist (see, for example,
>http://www.systemics.com/software/cryptix-java/)

>This does not alter the fact that implementors would need to download,
>understand, and adapt such code to work in their subsequently bloated
>application.

This has to be the silliest of excuses for not incorporating Ascii-Armour.
Exactly how many extra lines of code do you think it will take to
implement?? Compare that to the size of any Open-PGP implementation and
anyone can see this is a non-issue.

BTW: I did get a chuckle of you using a Java lib as an example. Anyone
writting a Java based app has bigger bloat problems than a couple of
ascii-armour routines to worry about. :)

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