Re: [NTLK] Anyone Making Public WiFi Work?

From: hellsop_at_ninehells.com
Date: Wed Apr 06 2005 - 18:53:20 PDT


On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 09:21:58PM -0400, Ian wrote:
> On Apr 4, 2005 12:42 PM, Martin Joseph <martyNT_at_barknaturalpet.com> wrote:
> > Our gurus have discussed at length why this is a very difficult
> > proposition REPEATEDLY.
> >
> > Looking through the archives might be very enlightening.
>
> Actually, it isn't. A lot of armchair hackers say "Whoa, that's hard"
> or "Wouldn't you have to reimplement NIE?" Occasionally someone like
> Paul or Victor or Steve

And, what did your researches tell you that they said?

I find:

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=newtontalk&m=100037057215062&w=2
        attempted to port Mindterm, gave up.
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=newtontalk&m=103475813007155&w=2
        Newt's Cape author calls SSL porting "a bit ambitious".
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=newtontalk&m=106869929124813&w=2
        NewtChat author declines to attempt the port.
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=newtontalk&m=106879489726509&w=2
        Eckhart compares porting SSL to rewriting NIE.
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=newtontalk&m=108340936417573&w=2
        Eckhart says SSL wouldn't be able to use standard NIE
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=newtontalk&m=108340991130281&w=2
        Eckhart expands on above.

There's more, too, but mostly it's developers saying "If someone makes
SSL work, I'd be happy to incorporate it, but I've got more productive
things to do" and non-developers saying "But it'd be REALLY GREAT if
someone would do it."

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