Ada Connections to this Crypto.

[Austin Obyrne <austin.obyrne@hotmail.com>]

This cryptography is complete now and several variants of the original cipher are up and running.

The focus all along has been on getting the core algorithm satisfactory with the outlook that anything else outside of that while still being under the general umbrella of cryptology is more to do with management of the infrastructure that has this algorithm as its core. No less important but a separate thing!

The cipher has been nominally been described as ASCII orientated (characters 32 ...126 incl.) but the real scope is that of the entire Latin_1 Character set 0 ... 255 and this is available to users.

In the Ada programming language the type CHARACTER is an enumeration type that is built in to the Ada package STANDARD and CHARACTER can take all the values represented by 8 bits in Latin_1.

The cipher documentation that goes with this cipher makes heavy use of the ASCII subset since this is the most used part of the full scope of 'CHARACTER' that readers may want to become familiar with initially but the full Latin_1 set is there also for users to use.  I have included some demonstration programs of the use of the full Latin_1 set in the ciphers that have been uploaded to http://www.adacryptpages.com

The way this cipher works is that the main program is a LOOP that calls each item of plaintext, - character by character from a prepared file and encrypts each one in each single pass of the loop and continuing until the end-of-file is reached and the loop is terminated. 

*We piped and you didn't dance.

I have been harassed by some readers with claims that there are ways by which 'any' data can be called (whatever that means)and encryption will still work.  They seem to be saying that this is done by user-defined enumeration types  that can be used instead of ASCII or Latin-1.  This ploy will not work in this cipher and at best will not be viable long-term in the science of cryptology.

All programming languages in the WEST at least have this same enumeration type called CHARACTER in Ada, as standard. 

I repeat - "ASCII"  is a nominal description of this cryptography - it is not a limitation.
 
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