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From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
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Subject: Re: Ada program needs to ping another machine.
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 22:43:40 +0100
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"Johannes Gr�dem" <st@kopkillah.com> writes:

> * Preben Randhol <randhol+abuse@pvv.org>:
>
>> I don't know if it makes sense trying to encrypt one
>> character, but I haven't read much about encryption so I do not know.
>
> It makes perfect sense.  SSH does it, for example.

No, it doesn't.  It adds a substantial amount of padding.