Re: Binary versus text and compiler versions, was: Re: Will Ada-95 Programs Written in MS Windows Run in MacOS and Linux Without Some Tweaking.

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

On Wednesday, December 11, 2013 3:14:37 PM UTC, Eryndlia Mavourneen wrote:
> On Wednesday, December 11, 2013 8:53:58 AM UTC-6, G.B. wrote: > why not > just require that encryption start at 7bit data units? > (This restriction helps keeping faulty produces in place, and it > allows continuing the ASCII caused destruction of well educated text > processing. ;-) I think your are joking, since your post does not seem to indicate what you would do with the 8th bit of every byte, assuming your input is 8-bit bytes. Of course, 7-bit ASCII would be unusable when dealing with videos, j-pegs, even Word documents. What is the problem with simply reading binary disk blocks as 8-bit text using Sequential_IO, since Austin wants to use the attributes 'Pos and 'Val on the data stream? -- Eryndlia Mavourneen (KK1T)

Like all cryptography since the 1970's this crypto is is exclusively 'number-theoretic'.

Binary base is essential to the current block ciphers of NSA but is a cul-de-sac for any further resaerach.

Your admonition to increase the scope to cover all of Latin_1 has been implemented (C++ only uses ASCII as far as I can tell but I am open to correction here).

My stuff uses the decimal base and the geometry of planes in three dimensions as the encryption environment. The scope is limiltless for the everyday applications that all walks of life require.

GET and PUT together with 'Pos and 'Val kick-start the computation of the ciphertext for each character read in which is then completed in each single pass of the main loop i.e. read in, encrypt, written out as ciphertext end-to-end in one throw straight.

The plaintext for encryption is read in character by character from text files and is limited only by the computer capacity to store the growing arrays. This helps to make Ada a perfect language for cryptography.  

- There is no hard sell about this - just plain fact.

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