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Hi, everybuddy, :)

Thanks for your great project.

I am Nao, a smartcard software engineer.  I and a friend of mine are
interested in contributing to your project by implementing
PKCS#11/smartcard/RSA based message encryption mechanism for Everybuddy.

We have not started writing code, but we decided to say hi to you first
because we probably will be asking many questions in this mailing list,
such as:

- Will there be interest in taking such a change and integrating
  into the main source tree?  We believe we can provide a strong
  end-to-end authentication and encryption mechanism.

- Which source code should we start from?  Everybuddy seems to have
  several sub projects like eb-lite and AYTTM.  Which is the best place
  for us to get the latest code?  cvs.everybuddy.com:/var/lib/cvs ?  We
  plan to develop mainly on Linux.

We looked at the source code of Everybuddy 0.4.3, and it is very well
structured.  Since each "module" is well isolated, adding an encryption
layer would be simple; just write a pass-thru module which authenticates
users, encrypts messages, and passes the encrypted messages to the real
module (like AIM module).

Please let us know what you think ...

Thank you.

--
Concentration ... Naomaru Itoi
Ph.D., University of Michigan
http://www.citi.umich.edu/u/itoi/