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James Maitland (jabba@jcp.co.uk)
Mon, 18 Jan 1999 14:41:46 +0000
Indeed- one mad idea I had was to write some spreadsheet macros to
encyrpt/decrypt cells.
The [possible] humour was the notion that the DoC would slap an export
regulation on such beasts as Excel.
yrs,
jabba.
At 15:11 18/01/99 , mgraffam@idsi.net wrote:
>On Mon, 18 Jan 1999, James Maitland wrote:
>
>> One solution to this is to abstract the crypto so far away from the program
>> that the latter isn't even aware the crypto is there.
>
>Yeah, this goes along with 'general processing module' too .. or even
>scripts that can pre/post process the data.
>
>That is, allow support for a plug-in module to work on some 'data.' This
>module could do all sorts of useful things. One module could convert MS
>Word files into the program's internal format, another could decrypt PGP
>encrypted documents. Other modules could do compression/decompression.
>
>A general suite like that would be rather powerful. One suite of programs,
>say a general office suite, with plug in ability for all sorts of things,
>notably crypto. One may be better off here using a good scripting language
>(Perl comes to mind) than compiled modules. In which case our whole thing
>starts looking a little like Emacs.. which is a good thing, IMHO.
>
>Aahh.. too bad Emacs doesn't use Perl.
>
>I find it hard to believe that a word processor would not exportable
>merely because it could be made to open zip's or convert documents from
>some other WP.
>
>Then again, were I not in the middle of all this, I'd find it hard to
>believe that crypto is restricted to begin with.
>
>Michael J. Graffam (mgraffam@idsi.net)
>"If you die, you win.."
> John Landry, statistics professor discussing life insurance
> and probability
Jim 'jabba' Maitland ( mailto:jabba@jcp.co.uk )
SSD, security products group, JCP.
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The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Sat Apr 10 1999 - 01:18:04