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=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM, FREEMAIL_REPLY autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Received: by 10.42.247.14 with SMTP id ma14mr30289039icb.3.1418634130157; Mon, 15 Dec 2014 01:02:10 -0800 (PST) X-Received: by 10.140.33.229 with SMTP id j92mr84902qgj.7.1418634130127; Mon, 15 Dec 2014 01:02:10 -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!news.glorb.com!h15no21515419igd.0!news-out.google.com!r1ni50qat.1!nntp.google.com!w8no7906665qac.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2014 01:02:09 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=5.80.153.30; posting-account=pmkN8QoAAAAtIhXRUfydb0SCISnwaeyg NNTP-Posting-Host: 5.80.153.30 References: <1a2fea61-bcc1-43a9-b6e3-edf474308402@googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <189f87ac-a057-41fa-bcdb-0dbac9fafdbe@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: Ada Connections to this Crypto. From: Austin Obyrne Injection-Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2014 09:02:10 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:23993 Date: 2014-12-15T01:02:09-08:00 List-Id: On Monday, December 15, 2014 6:14:40 AM UTC, Denis McMahon wrote: > On Sun, 14 Dec 2014 09:20:40 -0800, Austin Obyrne wrote: >=20 > > waffly crap >=20 > Until you get your head round the concepts of bytes and streams, your=20 > cryptography is of no interest to anyone except yourself. >=20 > People don't give a toss about your waffle and flannel, they want=20 > provably unbreakable encryption that works on streams of bytes. >=20 > Even if you have provably unbreakable encryption (which you don't) it is= =20 > still of no interest until it works on streams of bytes. > --=20 > Denis McMahon, denismfmcmahon@gmail.com Hi, In my view binary representation is what is holding up the progress of cryp= tography. It is short-sightedly ring-fencing current crypto research in bi= nary number-work to the exclusion of all the vast possibilities that exist = in decimal mathematics. This is an appalling mistake. No I will not be getting my head around bytes 'n streams as you suggest - t= hat is retrogressive. Binary arithmetic is only useful for demonstrating machine code to very you= ng students. adacrypt