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-<h2>History</h2>
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-Even though SILC were released in summer 2000 to the public the idea and
-the protocol itself is quite old. I got the idea about SILC in its
-current form in
-the year 1996 and first lines of codes were written in early 1997. This
-release is now third rewrite of the SILC. The very first version were
-written in 1997 and it included SILC client and very very preliminary
-SILC server. The server actually weren't usable but the client looked
-pretty much the same as it does now. At that time the SILC also included
-RSA implementation and 3DES implementation. The random number generator
-that exists in this current release is actually based on the RNG written
-in 1997. The RNG written in 1997, on the other hand, were based on
-the SSH's random number generator. The RNG has been rewritten twice
-since the first version.
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-I stopped writing the SILC later in 1997 when I got busy at school and
-in work. The pause lasted several months. The development resumed in
-1998 when my friend (Juha Räsänen) and I implemented ElGamal algorithm.
-I rewrote some other parts as well. However, for the same reasons as
-previously the development stopped again. I resumed the development
-later in 1998 by doing rewrite of the SILC in C++. This was obviously
-a mistake but at that time it seemed like a good idea. Again, in the
-winter 1999 I got very busy writing my thesis and was forced to stop the
-development again. I also, started a new job in the spring.
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-Later, in 1999, I decided that this time I'm going to make it the right
-way. C++ was obviously a bad choice so I decided to fall back to plain
-C language. I also decided to do complete rewrite and started doing
-more thorough planning of what the SILC actually should include. I also
-decided that this time it is going to kill me before I stop the
-development. I started writing SILC in the weekends and actually
-everytime I had some spare time. I also started a new job but I didn't
-let that get to my way. The result of this development effort is the
-release now in public.
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-I've learned a lot by doing the SILC. I guess, when I started it I wasn't
-that good of a C programmer. That alone was a reason why SILC hasn't
-seen the day of light before now. My programming style has also changed
-dramatically during these years. Actually, it has changed couple times
-since this last rewrite as well. However, the code style of current SILC
-release is quite consistent (actually the coding style SILC has been
-written now I've learned in my current job).
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-There is probably over 85% of new code in this third rewrite. Rest has
-just been copied from the old versions and only minor changes has been
-made (like changed function names and overall coding style). I've
-preserved the dates of the old files (dating back to 1997) that has
-existed in some forms in the old versions. There is a lot of new code but
-already I see a lot that needs rewriting. The development continues.
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