Re: PGP in forth ?

From	Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.forth
Subject	Re: PGP in forth ?
Date	2016-10-31 16:54 -0700
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jim <anon@example.com> writes:
>> https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2440
> again ... interesting  and again not what I asked for.

What are you asking for?  The point of that url is that "PGP in Forth"
would have to implement the stuff in that spec, plus a lot of stuff
referenced by the spec.  If you look throug the spec that should give
you an idea of how big a task it is.  That's what makes me doubt anyone
has bothered.  I've worked inside a few of the C implementations and
there's a lot of code in them.  

I don't think anything in PGP is terribly difficult technically, but
there's a lot of different sub-tasks that have to be done, each of which
has many small details that have to be implemented carefully.

Can I ask why you want it in Forth?  If you want to run PGP on a Forth
cpu or something like that, the simplest approach might be to implement
a virtual machine in Forth and compile an existing C version to run on
the VM.

If you're serious about commissioning an implementation then there are
certainly people here who can do it, but I'd expect the price tag to be
pretty significant.

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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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