On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 06:13:48PM -0700, Tim May wrote:
>
> At 4:54 PM -0700 5/10/01, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> >On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 11:35:20PM -0000, Wayne Rad wrote:
> >>
> >> I'm writing a secure IM application, but it's for Windows. If
> >> anyone wants to volunteer to port to linux (or any other platform),
> >> I'd love you for it. And would vastly prefer that to doing a new
> >> effort since the port would be compatible with the Windows version,
> >> (the protocol is designed to be platform and language independent).
> >
> >I'm vaguely curious as to why no-one is using DC-Nets for this. I wrote
> >a freely-available, but extremely simplistic, DC-Net app for UNIX, but
> >it's pretty standard C.
>
> If there are not many people (somewhat verifiably, to protect against
> most operators being the same agent) running your code, of what use
> is it?
Well, none at this point. And in fact, thinking about it more, a
straight DC-Net is of no use for IM, because the model is different (IM
is, by its nature, something where you wouldn't want to join a network
of all other users). It'd work for chats, but there are already
encrypting chat clients.
> I'm all for DC-Nets which implement the Pfitzmann fixes,
I have no idea what those are, sorry.
> but the fact that you haven't advertised tells me it's not likely
> enough independent users (N) are using your code to make it
> interesting to study.
No-one's using my code; it's cheap-ass simplistic C code, not a real
product, which is why I mentioned it to someone who looked to be
interested in writing a real product.
It was a final project for a crypto class (got a 95% on the project; I
was the only person who had done any original work, including the grad
students 8) taught by Menezes (who is a _great_ professor, btw; I just
wish I sucked less at math so I could have gotten more out of it).
> I therefore encourage you to either tell us a lot more about your
> code, your assumptions, etc., or to fade away.
You're such a sweety, Tim. 8)
http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/software/dc_net.tar.gz
The paper I wrote with my assumptions is 'paper.txt'. It has very
little math (it pretty ad hoc, actually) because, as I mentioned, I suck
at math.
-Robin
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