[hashcash] Re: Possibility of plugin for Mozilla/Thunderbird?
- From: Tim Wesson <tim.wesson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: hashcash@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 23:26:29 +0000 (UTC)
Eric S. Johansson <esj <at> harvee.org> writes:
> frequently plug-ins do not give you the right kind of control to do "the
> right thing". The ones I have looked at do not let you create
> background processing so users don't need to see stamp generation.
>
> here are two alternatives which are really the same thing with different
> coupling logic. The first and simplest is to take any of the stamping
> tools and make them run under Windows via a proxy. Personally (tooting
> my own horn), I have done this already with parts of camram and it works
> quite nicely. It would be interesting to play with camram 0.4.<dammit I
> found another bug> and build a client side stamping engine.
>
> the next challenge would be to do the same thing on the pop 3 side
> although that is somewhat more amenable to plug-ins since it isn't
> necessarily real-time. Camram would be a bit of overkill there but not
> unrealistically so if you want to go down that path. Your big challenge
> would be making crm114 work on Windows.
>
> the variant once you have the basic proxy systems working would be to
> use the Windows tcp stack interception code to redirect connection
> traffic to these filters.
>
> I'm not intending to discourage, I just want you to know a little
> something about the terrain. If you want to do the camram route, I will
> be glad to give you some help.
>
> ---eric
I'll look into the size of the problem, although I doubt that I would do much
more, at least /initially/ than just the client side. I have almost no Windows
experience (sorry if I gave a different impression), so I'd choose to implement
a mozilla widget, which would at least approach a solution to the problem
that I came up against. As I've done no non-trivial programming for a couple
of years, and little for several years, it'll take a while.
My reason for mentioning Outlook was that I was imagining the point at which
it would be reasonable for some organisations to /require/ Hardcash. This is
looking into the future.
Thank-you for your offer of help, though, but I don't have the confidence for
the larger task that you paint, as least not right away. If I feel like taking
the Mozilla toolbar on after looking at what it would involve, I'll let this
group know.
Sincerely,
Tim Wesson.
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