Re: A Proposal?
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Geschrieben von / Written by Starling am 27. August 2004 21:00:28:
Als Antwort auf: / as an answer to: A Proposal? geschrieben von / written by Steaphan Greene am 13. Juli 2004 00:50:50:
>I was sad to see this announcement. I only recently discovered Entropy and was pleased to see how well it worked and was looking forward to getting more involved in its development.
I would love to see the project keep going. I'm more focused on applications than committment and politics and such, but I can definitely say a headless chicken does not get far. If you were to be so kind as to take over the project (and somehow pullmoll revived enough to release CVS admin privileges to you) then I'd be behind you the whole way. ^.^
> would be happy to do this to help this great community preserve what small amount of freedom is left in this country (I am an American) and others.
I definitely have a stake in that... it's our societal duty to provide this great opportunity for anonymous exchange.
>If it comes to this, I can't say the transition wouldn't be bumpy. It would be a while before forward progress is again made with Entropy as I familiarize myself with the codebase.
Have you looked at it yet? It's not very large (all code is in src I think) but the code is rather spidery, with lots of magic numbers, meaningless variables, weird looping constructs. Seems to have some inline documentation though, so perhaps not too bad.
>However, if no one else who feels qualified wants the job, I'll take it. It may, however, be impossible for me, due to my country's Nazi laws on crypto export, so some research would be required.
Definitely a tricky thing. Although as the other person pointed out, if we modularize cryptography and only distribute Entropy with the exportable modules, then we can use Entropy to transport the "illegal" modules, and thereby give people teh bawm in cryptography.
>What do you all think?
>P.S. I don't speak German, just English and a bit of Spanish.You know C, but not German? Aw c'mon! ;) Get with the pwogwam, heo.
The most difficult thing about German is best summarized by Mark Twain:
http://www.crossmyt.com/hc/linghebr/awfgrmlg.htmlGerman is the hardest language to learn, and so is English. Everyone should speak Japanese and write in Katakana!
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