Re: [Mixlet-devl] Roadmap

[Len S. <ra...@ab...>]

On Fri, 6 Dec 2002, Bryan L. Fordham wrote:

> Here's my idea on how to proceed with mixlet.  Let me know of any
> suggestions or problems with this.
>
> 0.5 - Where I think we stand now
> 0.6 - Move some things around (basically create some pacakges) and write
>        an ant script to compile everything
> 0.7 - All crypto should be internal (ie using classes from cryptix or
>        whatever)
> 0.8 - Move off of using port 25 to send mail
> 0.9 - Config and cleanup.  Someone deploying mixlet should be able to
>        access a simple interface to configure it.
>
>  From there proceed with bug fixes to 1.0
>
> For 0.8 I think we could easily supply 3 ways to send the message: a
> jsp, a php page, and a cgi.  All could basically take the message and
> pipe it to the local mix instance.
>
> On .9 milestone: One thing we may want to add into this is using
> user-supplied keys (and stats?).  I say maybe because I don't know what
> all is involved in getting an applet to read local files.

I would shift all those numbers down by one, and include in there an
explicit milestone release for handling the key file problem.

(There are a number of possible solutions, from  user-supplied keys to a
third-party remailer keyring CA. None of them are nice.)

> I'd like to see all the mix stuff in a seperate library; Len wants this
> release quickly (I think).  So I'd like to make the move to a library a
> goal for version 2.  That would be the time to add typeIII support, I think.
>
> Anyway, that's how I see it.

Looks good!