Can someone eMail me a copy of the source??.... Send it to caligula@pbth.com please.... I would like to take a look at their embedded routing mechanism as I am planning on using something similar for a massively multiplayer online games games library.... It would help to look at their implementation to see where it might be improved.
Of course they removed it, AOL is also a motion picture and music company. You think they want a webbed intercommunication tool floating around there whose content they can't scan for pirated material? Of course not.... Yet another example of why the paranoia of the RIAA and other special interest groups is holding back the progress of network computing.
Almost makes me want to write something similar just to spite them. It's not like RSA is a hard encryption standard to write for... I have the basic algorithms for it in "The Art of Computer Programming, Volume 2; Semi-numerical Algorithms, Third Edition".
A good read for anyone interested in writing such a tool, by Don Knuth, publisher is Addison Wesley. I recommend the entire series to any programmer, particularly those who like to use mathematical analysis of algorithms.
Horsecrap, there are other reasons for encrypted communications. I use them when collaborating on software projects with other programmers. We exchange source via PGP so that if anyone intercepts our data stream our intellectual property is not compromised. Something like WASTE would have been perfect for this sort of thing.
What's really annoying is that if they wrote it with GPL technology and source then they MUST release it with all the GPL components intact and in source format. Sure they could provide the proprietary stuff as a pre-compiled library, but they still have to provide it free if it uses GPL components.
Did you ever consider that OS X is just as capable of making a RAID array of 250M Zip drives? He just used floppies as an exercise in the absurd.
Hell, OSX can made a RAID array out of partitions on the same physical volume, not that it gets you anything but maybe mirroring to make sure you don't run into a bad byte that loses you a whole file.... Not that this is likely considering the reliability of the drivers.
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Of course they removed it, AOL is also a motion picture and music company. You think they want a webbed intercommunication tool floating around there whose content they can't scan for pirated material? Of course not.... Yet another example of why the paranoia of the RIAA and other special interest groups is holding back the progress of network computing. Almost makes me want to write something similar just to spite them. It's not like RSA is a hard encryption standard to write for... I have the basic algorithms for it in "The Art of Computer Programming, Volume 2; Semi-numerical Algorithms, Third Edition". A good read for anyone interested in writing such a tool, by Don Knuth, publisher is Addison Wesley. I recommend the entire series to any programmer, particularly those who like to use mathematical analysis of algorithms.
Horsecrap, there are other reasons for encrypted communications. I use them when collaborating on software projects with other programmers. We exchange source via PGP so that if anyone intercepts our data stream our intellectual property is not compromised. Something like WASTE would have been perfect for this sort of thing. What's really annoying is that if they wrote it with GPL technology and source then they MUST release it with all the GPL components intact and in source format. Sure they could provide the proprietary stuff as a pre-compiled library, but they still have to provide it free if it uses GPL components.
Did you ever consider that OS X is just as capable of making a RAID array of 250M Zip drives? He just used floppies as an exercise in the absurd.
Hell, OSX can made a RAID array out of partitions on the same physical volume, not that it gets you anything but maybe mirroring to make sure you don't run into a bad byte that loses you a whole file.... Not that this is likely considering the reliability of the drivers.