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 10.50.88.10 with SMTP id bc10mr10013155igb.5.1417639700051; Wed, 03 Dec 2014 12:48:20 -0800 (PST) X-Received: by 10.140.37.104 with SMTP id q95mr34824qgq.36.1417639699986; Wed, 03 Dec 2014 12:48:19 -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!peer01.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!h15no12837753igd.0!news-out.google.com!n9ni15qai.0!nntp.google.com!s7no3954081qap.1!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2014 12:48:19 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <16bc91a8-7d25-4b39-a88c-3423e5bdecf4@googlegroups.com> Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=81.157.175.106; posting-account=pmkN8QoAAAAtIhXRUfydb0SCISnwaeyg NNTP-Posting-Host: 81.157.175.106 References: <16bc91a8-7d25-4b39-a88c-3423e5bdecf4@googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <587e236f-123f-4897-b73e-264082a62806@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: The enormous potential that programming LaTeX in Ada presents. From: Austin Obyrne Injection-Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2014 20:48:20 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Received-Bytes: 3297 X-Received-Body-CRC: 672980764 Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:23842 Date: 2014-12-03T12:48:19-08:00 List-Id: On Wednesday, December 3, 2014 4:12:36 PM UTC, gautier...@hotmail.com wrote= : > In the triangle {LaTeX, Ada, cryptography} I don't see meaning of the lin= k LaTeX -cryptography, but for the link Ada - LaTeX I take the opportunity = of a shameless plug for TeXCAD: http://texcad.sf.net :-) > _________________________=20 > Gautier's Ada programming=20 > http://www.openhub.net/accounts/gautier_bd Hi, Current cryptography is capable of encrypting ASCII and at most the entire = Latin-1 set. There is a vast set of mathematical symbols, special general = characters, Greek language characters (often included in English language t= est files)that cannot be read in or keyed for encryption because they are o= utside of the Latin_1 character set. Nor is there any formatting facilities= in the current ciphers and as far as I know message text must be formatted= at the receiving end when is should be done beforehand at the sending end. All of the foregoing can be done by deploying latex which is always entirel= y ASCII and can be encrypted as ASCII while possessing all sorts of non-ASC= II attributes in its command code. The input file of latex is encrypted in= ASCII - the file may be encrypted and when it is decrypted it can be run s= o as to typeset the message in any way the entities want. There is also a = vast amount of extra prose that is outside of the scope of ASCII for the be= nefit of users. These are the perceived benefits of using Latex as an encry= ption platform in conjunction. Why Ada + Latex and not C++ and Latex say. Ada is perfect for cryptology = - no other language will ever be able to match it (In my view of used Ada a= nd attempting to use C++ - I gave up on the latter). To me not using latex in tandem with Ada is missing a valuable asset. I be= lieve the Ada industry should look at it - indeed the user public would dem= and it if they knew the benefits of amalgamating Latex with cryptography an= d ideally with Ada as the implementing language. adacrypt