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Subject: Re: A matter of interest.
From: Austin Obyrne <austin.obyrne@hotmail.com>
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On Sunday, November 30, 2014 12:49:41 PM UTC, Simon Wright wrote:
> Austin Obyrne <austin.obyrne@hotmail.com> writes:
> 
> > The file of 49471 Ada sourcecode characters encrypted and decrypted
> > perfectly which I knew it would anyway so I decided next I would test
> > the fidelity (a privately coined word that I think is apt but is not
> > normal crypto jargon just for your info) of the entire experiment in
> > cryptology by test-running the decrypted source code as (message-text
> > now) in my Ada-Gide editor - it compiled and ran perfectly without any
> > editing and immediately encrypted some test programs itself.
> 
> This is good, but as a method of testing I'd have used a byte-by-byte
> comparison of original/decrypted files. In a Unix environment, I'd use
> cmp(1).
> 
> http://unixhelp.ed.ac.uk/CGI/man-cgi?cmp

But surely the compiler does a bit-by-bit job ?

For the purpose either of these is excellent !
Thanks for your info - Austin.