Re: [xPG] New Member

[M.Jerger <mj...@we...>]

Hi,

> [In short: xPG is what you make of it.]

Will xPG be an entire substitution for gnupg ?

> That said, items currently being worked on are a low-level OpenPGP
> implementation (me), some baseline GUI stuff (gulliver) and I also

Okay, I found that xpg.tools.ui.swing stuff. Does gulliver still some work 
with it, or is this part of code sleeping ?

> have some iButton-based token supporting code lying around that I want
> to generalize a bit to encompass all crypto-tokens and then integrate

What's iButton ? The infamous java-micro-processor ?

> it.  Someone else was also working on Smartcard stuff but he seems to
> have vanished.

Smartcard sounds great :-) but there is typical no display on there ... 
so crypto dosn't seem realy usefull for me.

> Looking at your experience, maybe you'd be interested in looking into
> the J2ME stuff?  Then, again, maybe you'd like something else for a
> change ;-)

I think J2ME (the political correct name now is CLDC) sounds intresting.
But I'm a friend of small finished steps. Will say, if the JDK1.3 based 
lib's are finished and stable, I'l try my luck doing that port.

> I have been investigating the possibility to build a low-level lib on
> something like the BouncyCastle leight-weight (non-JCE) crypto library
> for use with J2ME but didn't pursue that further because I didn't have
> a J2ME development environment.  Since our pgp library does not make

Okay, if you're interestet, you may search at the sun 
java-developer-connection for "j2me wireless toolkit" and additional 
for the palm emulator to run.

Finaly I'l need your help:
- Can you give me a short overview of the cvs ?
- Can I generate an new private Key, encrypt something and then also decrypt ?
- How can I get the hidden cvs stuff ?


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micha