From: Austin Obyrne <austin.obyrne@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: Will Ada-95 Programs Written in MS Windows Run in MacOS and Linux Without Some Tweaking.
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2013 13:40:56 -0800 (PST)
Date: 2013-12-16T13:40:56-08:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8a2b624f-bf49-4edc-a143-51512da5e7a1@googlegroups.com> (raw)
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On Monday, December 16, 2013 9:19:15 PM UTC, Simon Wright wrote:
> Austin Obyrne <austin.obyrne@hotmail.com> writes: > I am the first to admit that this cryptography has very high > ciphertext expansion but I cannot understand it being 870 Megabytes > for the example you gave. I have no doubt you are right. Each character is written as 3 integers, each occupying 11 characters. I've put a new line between every group of 3 integers, whereas you put a new line where there's a new line in the original (I think; anyway, not a good idea when the input isn't text), => 34 characters per byte (35 on Windows). 34 * 27_014_786 = 918_502_724 (875 MB). > Most of what you say is technically beyond my ken also but its is very > encouraging that you have not decided to condemn it out of hand as a > lost cause like for instance the current complexity-theoretic crypto > that is headed for the scrap heap. My interest is in helping people to get code working right, not in cryptography; I'd probably use GPG if I needed to. It seems to me that yours is a symmetric-key scheme (I can't read the documentation on your site because you've packaged up multiple PDF files in one, which is a feature that's not supported by Mac Preview, and I'm not going to install Acrobat).
<My interest is in helping people to get code working right, not in
<cryptography; I'd probably use GPG if I needed to.
Keep up the good work.
I'm not sure what I am - a problem solver I think - I don't admire cryptography - there is some powerful new mathenatics on the table here however that may take another half cenutury to be recognised - i.e. factoring a physical vector - the application to cryptography is only scratching the surface.
Generally the altruism of your group is fairly palpable - it comes across fairly noticeably.
I am putting pen to paper in a final condensation of the theory associated with this scheme and that is going to be it - finish. My mind is in revolt. I would go back to sea but they won't take 80 year old Engineers any more.
I might spend a few moments thinking about reducing the cipheterxt volume that as you say is very large.
Thanks once more for your great help.
Austin.
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2013-12-07 12:24 Will Ada-95 Programs Written in MS Windows Run in MacOS and Linux Without Some Tweaking Austin Obyrne
2013-12-07 13:16 ` Simon Wright
2013-12-07 14:01 ` Austin Obyrne
2013-12-07 17:18 ` Simon Wright
2013-12-07 18:26 ` Austin Obyrne
2013-12-08 17:17 ` Simon Wright
2013-12-08 18:17 ` Jeffrey Carter
2013-12-08 20:00 ` Simon Wright
2013-12-08 21:20 ` Jeffrey Carter
2013-12-08 18:44 ` Austin Obyrne
2013-12-08 20:10 ` Simon Wright
2013-12-08 20:31 ` Austin Obyrne
2013-12-08 22:39 ` Austin Obyrne
2013-12-16 11:46 ` Simon Wright
2013-12-16 19:00 ` Austin Obyrne
2013-12-16 21:19 ` Simon Wright
2013-12-16 21:40 ` Austin Obyrne [this message]
2013-12-18 4:44 ` Austin Obyrne
2013-12-18 8:35 ` Simon Wright
2013-12-18 9:54 ` Austin Obyrne
2013-12-18 4:57 ` Austin Obyrne
2013-12-18 8:55 ` Simon Wright
2013-12-18 5:38 ` Austin Obyrne
2013-12-18 9:02 ` Simon Wright
2013-12-18 13:02 ` Austin Obyrne
2013-12-16 19:24 ` Austin Obyrne
2013-12-17 9:06 ` Austin Obyrne
2013-12-08 20:01 ` Simon Wright
2013-12-10 6:37 ` Randy Brukardt
2013-12-10 10:14 ` Austin Obyrne
2013-12-10 11:39 ` Austin Obyrne
2013-12-10 21:49 ` Randy Brukardt
2013-12-10 23:08 ` Binary versus text and compiler versions, was: " Simon Clubley
2013-12-11 8:35 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-12-11 12:50 ` Simon Clubley
2013-12-11 13:29 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-12-11 14:20 ` Simon Wright
2013-12-11 18:25 ` Simon Clubley
2013-12-11 14:53 ` G.B.
2013-12-11 15:14 ` Eryndlia Mavourneen
2013-12-11 16:07 ` Austin Obyrne
2013-12-11 16:26 ` Eryndlia Mavourneen
2013-12-11 17:37 ` Austin Obyrne
2013-12-11 17:54 ` Eryndlia Mavourneen
2013-12-12 1:55 ` Austin Obyrne
2013-12-11 16:54 ` G.B.
2013-12-11 11:37 ` Austin Obyrne
2013-12-12 19:23 ` erlo
2013-12-11 10:35 ` Austin Obyrne
2013-12-11 0:34 ` Simon Wright
2013-12-11 1:01 ` Jeffrey Carter
2013-12-11 8:38 ` Simon Wright
2013-12-11 17:07 ` Simon Wright
2013-12-11 8:49 ` Simon Wright
2013-12-07 22:49 ` Austin Obyrne
2013-12-07 14:08 ` Austin Obyrne
2013-12-08 20:06 ` Stephen Leake
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