Re: weird but genuine [V-1.0.3 (fwd)]

From: Alan Horkan (horkana@tcd.ie)
Date: Mon Sep 30 2002 - 11:48:53 EDT

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    On Mon, 30 Sep 2002, F J Franklin wrote:

    > Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 16:47:14 +0100 (BST)
    > From: F J Franklin <F.J.Franklin@sheffield.ac.uk>
    > To: AbiWord Developer Mailing List <abiword-dev@abisource.com>
    > Subject: Re: weird but genuine [V-1.0.3 (fwd)]
    >
    > On Mon, 30 Sep 2002, Alan Horkan wrote:
    > > my best geuss would be that he wants an easy way to encrypt abiword
    > > documents (probably makes most sense to encrypt gzipped abiword
    > > documents).
    >
    > Unless I'm very much mistaken, which is not unlikely, libssl has to do
    > with the secure socket layer web protocol so okay it has encryption built
    > in but...?

    i was ignoring the libssl bit and looking at the libcrypto bit he
    mentioned.

    > As for encryption, there was a short thread on the user list - last week,
    > I think - about this. There is a standard for encryption of XML documents
    > that we may like to look into, and there's even a library that implements
    > aspects of the standard, which maybe we can write a plugin around.

    code reuse good :)

    Later
    Alan

    >
    > Regards, Frank
    >
    > Francis James Franklin
    > F.J.Franklin@shef.ac.uk
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