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Re: PGP in forth ?

From Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid>
Newsgroups comp.lang.forth
Subject Re: PGP in forth ?
Date 2016-10-31 16:18 -0700
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jim <anon@example.com> writes:
>> PGP is quite complicated and I doubt anyone has bothered doing this.
> seriously ?

Yes, if you look at the manual or the format spec (RFC 2440) you'll see
that a lot of stuff goes on in PGP.  Even if you follow the Forth spirit
and skip most of the features, it's still complicated.  It was designed
in the 1980s to fulfill a lot of requirements that the author thought at
the time were important.  In retrospect many of those requirements
turned out not to be important, but you can't leave them out if you want
your program to interoperate with other implementations.

If you just want a program with similar basic high-level functionality
and you don't care about interoperating with "official" PGP, the problem
becomes a lot simpler.  As Anton said, net2o.de should be a good place
to look for code to get started with.

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PGP in forth ? jim <anon@example.com> - 2016-10-30 23:14 +0000
  Re: PGP in forth ? Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2016-10-30 16:30 -0700
    Re: PGP in forth ? jim <anon@example.com> - 2016-10-31 11:10 +0000
      Re: PGP in forth ? hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2016-10-31 15:53 -0700
        Re: PGP in forth ? jim <anon@example.com> - 2016-10-31 23:24 +0000
          Re: PGP in forth ? Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2016-10-31 16:34 -0700
            Re: PGP in forth ? jim <anon@example.com> - 2016-10-31 23:39 +0000
              Re: PGP in forth ? Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2016-10-31 16:54 -0700
                Re: PGP in forth ? hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2016-10-31 17:36 -0700
                Re: PGP in forth ? hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2016-10-31 20:40 -0700
                Re: PGP in forth ? hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2016-10-31 23:12 -0700
                Re: PGP in forth ? jim <anon@example.com> - 2016-11-01 11:36 +0000
                Re: PGP in forth ? Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2016-11-01 08:50 -0700
                Re: PGP in forth ? jim <anon@example.com> - 2016-11-01 16:51 +0000
          Re: PGP in forth ? hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2016-10-31 16:54 -0700
            Re: PGP in forth ? jim <anon@example.com> - 2016-11-01 11:18 +0000
              Re: PGP in forth ? Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2016-11-01 09:12 -0700
      Re: PGP in forth ? Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2016-10-31 16:18 -0700
        Re: PGP in forth ? jim <anon@example.com> - 2016-10-31 23:36 +0000
  Re: PGP in forth ? Manuel Rodriguez <aa5@gmx.net> - 2016-10-31 10:24 -0700
    Re: PGP in forth ? anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2016-10-31 17:55 +0000
      Re: PGP in forth ? hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2016-10-31 16:27 -0700
      Re: PGP in forth ? jim <anon@example.com> - 2016-10-31 23:26 +0000
        Re: PGP in forth ? Bernd Paysan <bernd@net2o.de> - 2016-11-04 14:16 +0000
    Re: PGP in forth ? jim <anon@example.com> - 2016-10-31 23:34 +0000
      Re: PGP in forth ? Andreas Wagner <andreas.wagner@lowfatcomputing.org> - 2016-10-31 21:22 -0700
      Re: PGP in forth ? Manuel Rodriguez <aa5@gmx.net> - 2016-11-01 03:01 -0700
  Re: PGP in forth ? Ron Aaron <rambamist@gmail.com> - 2016-11-01 06:56 +0200
    Re: PGP in forth ? Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2016-10-31 22:28 -0700
      Re: PGP in forth ? Ron Aaron <rambamist@gmail.com> - 2016-11-01 08:26 +0200
        Re: PGP in forth ? jim <anon@example.com> - 2016-11-01 11:51 +0000
          Re: PGP in forth ? Cecil Bayona <cbayona@cbayona.com> - 2016-11-01 10:49 -0500
      Re: PGP in forth ? jim <anon@example.com> - 2016-11-01 11:46 +0000
    Re: PGP in forth ? jim <anon@example.com> - 2016-11-01 11:44 +0000
      Re: PGP in forth ? Ron Aaron <rambamist@gmail.com> - 2016-11-01 14:00 +0200
        Re: PGP in forth ? albert@cherry.spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2016-11-01 13:49 +0100
          Re: PGP in forth ? Ron Aaron <rambamist@gmail.com> - 2016-11-01 15:11 +0200
        Re: PGP in forth ? Bugmagnet <bugmagnet@outlook.com> - 2016-11-02 11:20 +0800
          Re: PGP in forth ? Ron Aaron <rambamist@gmail.com> - 2016-11-02 06:51 +0200
      Re: PGP in forth ? Cecil Bayona <cbayona@cbayona.com> - 2016-11-01 10:38 -0500
        Re: PGP in forth ? Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2016-11-02 03:45 -0500
          Re: PGP in forth ? "Robert L." <No_spamming@noWhere_7073.org> - 2017-01-03 17:25 +0000
        Re: PGP in forth ? rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2016-11-02 11:03 -0400
  Re: PGP in forth ? lehs <skydda.barnen@gmail.com> - 2017-01-05 18:39 -0800
    Re: PGP in forth ? albert@cherry.spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2017-01-06 13:25 +0100
      Re: PGP in forth ? lehs <skydda.barnen@gmail.com> - 2017-01-06 05:07 -0800
        Re: PGP in forth ? albert@cherry.spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2017-01-06 17:29 +0100
      Re: PGP in forth ? albert@cherry.spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2017-01-07 11:56 +0100
        Re: PGP in forth ? lehs <skydda.barnen@gmail.com> - 2017-01-07 13:08 -0800
          Re: PGP in forth ? albert@cherry.spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2017-01-08 01:28 +0100
            Re: PGP in forth ? lehs <skydda.barnen@gmail.com> - 2017-01-08 00:30 -0800

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