From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Received: by 10.224.111.196 with SMTP id t4mr19564629qap.8.1418655736955; Mon, 15 Dec 2014 07:02:16 -0800 (PST) X-Received: by 10.140.94.150 with SMTP id g22mr649966qge.0.1418655736937; Mon, 15 Dec 2014 07:02:16 -0800 (PST) Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!usenet.blueworldhosting.com!feeder01.blueworldhosting.com!border2.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!w8no8056719qac.0!news-out.google.com!r1ni50qat.1!nntp.google.com!w8no8056718qac.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2014 07:02:16 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <87lhm9rnsx.fsf@ixod.org> Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=197.87.225.175; posting-account=r0RePAgAAABkc8iAou09Mtfbf-fnKQql NNTP-Posting-Host: 197.87.225.175 References: <1a2fea61-bcc1-43a9-b6e3-edf474308402@googlegroups.com> <5d31987b-b96b-481b-ac4d-f87114257bb4@googlegroups.com> <87lhm9rnsx.fsf@ixod.org> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <00a1a85b-6ce3-40a8-be35-7fce53907ec4@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: Ada Connections to this Crypto. From: mrvmurray@gmail.com Injection-Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2014 15:02:16 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:24003 Date: 2014-12-15T07:02:16-08:00 List-Id: On Monday, 15 December 2014 16:27:12 UTC+2, Mark Carroll wrote: > I'd thus guess that you're in North America or perhaps Australia? For > most people in the world, ASCII is missing many common useful symbols. He is an 80-something-year-old retired ships' engineer resident somewhere in UK. He's been banging this particular drum for 10 years or so, and the basic premises are unchanged in this time. Take a look at his code sometime. Beginner stuff. > No serious cryptographer is going to look at your algorithm until you > have shown mathematically why it resists linear and differential > cryptanalysis. You'll find rather more of them over on sci.crypt than > here. (Ada has no special claim on ASCII.) He's been laughed at in sci.crypto for many years. He's the resident crank there. M --