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In article <18rhrrINN6io@agate.berkeley.edu> izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu writes:
>Give an encription API to NeXTMail, and NeXT should ship without any
>encryption module.  Let Canon in Japan or an European subsidiary develop
>an encription module which then will be distributed to the world
>free via net.  We just get it and pop it into our NeXTMail.

If you dig around in the 3.0 Mail app-wrapper (at least in PR3 - wont
know about 3.0 release until tonight), you'll find that everything is
there (the encryption panels, etc...).  I even tried hooking it up in
IB, but apparently there is an encryption bundle missing from
/usr/lib/NextStep (or wherever it goes) that keeps it from working (it
throws up a panel saying "Encryption is not installed on this
computer.").

So if this bundle were to leak out to the net or wherever........


At the very least the machinery is there for anyone who wants to
reverse engineer the API and write an RSA bundle for Mail.app using
PGP.  Given how nice the Objc runtime is about telling you which
selectors your object couldn't respond to, it shouldn't be impossible.


andrew
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