Re: [rp-ml] SYCODE Releases Four New Free RP Plug-ins

From: Adrian Bowyer <A.Bowyer_at_bath.ac.uk>
Date: Sat Oct 04 2008 - 15:14:51 EEST

Deelip Menezes wrote:
> Markus Hitter: "Am I missing something or are neither the file format
> specifications nor the source code of the applications published? As it
> currently looks to me, the OpenRP format is more locked-in than the STL
> format."
>
> If we made the source code and algorithms public, then the security of the
> RP file format would be compromised. Anyone with a little bit of programming
> knowledge would be able to write a program to bypass the password in a RP
> file. The OpenRP solution gives you all the tools you need to get STL data
> from a RP file. So under normal circumstances one should not be bothered
> with the innards of the RP file format... unless you are interested in
> bypassing the password.

So what does this give that simply running a free public-key crypto
package like GPG (http://www.gnupg.org/) on an STL file wouldn't? With
that, the STL file is open, and the source of the cryptography program
is open and free under the GPL.

-- 
Best wishes
Adrian
Dr Adrian Bowyer
http://people.bath.ac.uk/ensab
http://reprap.org
Received on Sat Oct 04 15:21:44 2008

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