Re: Introduction

["P.J. McIntyre" <pjm80@cam.ac.uk>]

On Sep 11 2002, Roger Dingledine wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 10, 2002 at 02:22:08PM +0100, P.J. McIntyre wrote:
> > thought I would stop lurking and introduce myself: my name's Peter 
> > McIntyre, I'm a third year Computer Science undergrad at Camb who has 
> > twisted George's arm sufficiently to let me implement a client 
> > (nymserver) to connect to the network (if all goes to plan).
> 
> Good to hear from you, and welcome to the team. :)
Cheers.

> 
> We're a looseknit volunteer group, as you can tell. You're welcome to
> grab anything you want to work on, and voice opinions about anything
> we're doing wrong.
Famous last words...

> What's your background, your strengths, etc?

errm....I've done two years of comp-sci now, and have an interest in 
security, cryptology, complexity theory etc. These are the areas I'm 
strongest in, but to describe them as strengths would be to grossly 
overplay my competetance. :)


> 
> I think Nick has a basic client on the way, though we sure haven't
> thought much yet about how to make it more usable. The nymserver and a
> client for the nymserver (to generate commands and provide surbs, and
> handle received messages and tell the nymserver to delete them, etc)
> is definitely something we can use.
> 
> How much does the current nymserver spec help you, is there anything
> you want to fix about it, and what do you/we need to clarify before you
> can proceed?

I've talked to George, and we're going to discuss the spec when I return to 
camb ("security engineering can be quite tricky "). Although there are many 
things I love about debian, at the minute I'm on a 56k modem downloading 
the "tex" package with 1hr and 51 minutes to go, so I'll let you know..... 
:)