On Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 02:02:12AM -0500, MJR wrote:
> I've written a little GTK+ GUI wrapper for the new CLI clients.
> Yesterday I mailed the list about my new version 0.1, but after two of
> my attempts the listserv replied "Awaiting moderator approval - size too
> big". Apparently my 60k attached tarball was just too massive.

Those of us in third world countries with flaky phone lines don't
generally appreciate large attachments.

Mailing lists are not a good place for files. The web is a good
place. Freenet is an even better place :-).

> Anyway, since then I've cleaned up the code a bit. Now I think it only
> has one really evil kludge! I bumped up the version.
> 
> But there are a few issues yet. I am *not* a programmer, at least not in
> any hardcore sense of the term. For some inexplicable reason I just
> decided four days ago to write a GUI. So here's the catch: a fake like
> me has *no* business implementing encryption! I just couldn't help
> myself. You know how that is.
> the configuration file.
<> 
> Decryption is done as you think it is. Well, it works so it can't be
> wrong.

While that is, unfortunately, very much not true when it comes to
security, this doesn't sound wrong.

If you want to be paranoid about those things, remember to call the
clients with "-safer yes".

<> 
> The method for inserting subspaces is interesting. I insert pseudorandom
> 1k hexadecimal file as an SVK, read the private key, insert another
> random file under the SVK, and finally read the public key.

I'm sure we can convince Scott to write some code so it doesn't have to be
this complicated. Meanwhile remember to use "-htl 1" on these so they will
be fast.

> That's about it. Oh, you'll need a new (>1.2.0) version of GTK+. I
> recommend 1.2.8.
> 
> You can grab a tarball from http://24.131.186.16:976/bakunin-0.2.tar.gz.
> Mediaone (now AT&T) is fucking evil, the IP will change (who knows
> when). Act fast.

That file is borked from here.

> 
> 
> Mark Roberts
> mroberts100 at mediaone.net
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