Re: [GNU Crypto] beyond 1.1

[Raif S. Naffah]

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On Wednesday 26 February 2003 08:42, Casey Marshall wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-02-24 at 07:47, Raif S. Naffah wrote:
> > On Monday 24 February 2003 23:47, Casey Marshall wrote:
> > > ...
> > > The zip-like tool sounds interesting -- what did you have in
> > > mind?
> >
> > nothing fancy.  a first cut would be similar to a command-line tool
> > equivalent to [un]zip with the added feature of en/de-crypting the
> > entries.  later on, the same with a GUI face may be a nice
> > addition.
>
> Heck, it could be nothing more than an enhanced version of jar that
> can encrypt entries. That would be easy to put together (though a
> plain Jar with encrypted entries *may* provide too much information
> as it is...).

implementing it as a jar tool rather than a zip/unzip tool offers more 
possibilities!  a[n encrypted] jar generated by such tool, would 
benefit from a special classloader akin to the one that verifies signed 
entries.  what benefits do encrypted+signed entries offer v/s 
signed-only entries is a different matter :-)


cheers;
rsn
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