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 10.236.62.229 with SMTP id y65mr11663793yhc.38.1419113709788; Sat, 20 Dec 2014 14:15:09 -0800 (PST) X-Received: by 10.140.28.180 with SMTP id 49mr110575qgz.4.1419113709770; Sat, 20 Dec 2014 14:15:09 -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!news.glorb.com!dc16no702626qab.1!news-out.google.com!r1ni76qat.1!nntp.google.com!dc16no702622qab.1!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2014 14:15:09 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=197.86.177.177; posting-account=r0RePAgAAABkc8iAou09Mtfbf-fnKQql NNTP-Posting-Host: 197.86.177.177 References: <5d2bfbf7-08b9-4d04-b68a-ee79f1dd9602@googlegroups.com> <1871394d-4785-44cd-9bf3-e286520f59b4@googlegroups.com> <2367167e-4d5d-4a4f-8c2d-296c353e13cf@googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <9b6e5558-b3f5-4199-8dde-d1574b3ded5a@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: Ada Connections to this Crypto. From: MM Injection-Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2014 22:15:09 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:24182 Date: 2014-12-20T14:15:09-08:00 List-Id: On Saturday, 20 December 2014 18:57:27 UTC+2, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: > Ah, only a 6X expansion factor presuming the real values are 16-bit > integers (they're too large for a byte, but none have gone high enough to > require more than 16-bits... Based on the visual scan, 13-bit unsigned is > sufficient). I'll ignore the ~15X expansion for the decimal ASCII he is so > enamored of... No, they are regular integers. The reduction in length is cunning choice of encryption parameters resulting in a desired short output from a regular ada.integer_text_io.put()n usage. He's not nearly good enough of a programmer to constrain his output to GF(2^8) or anything sane like that. M --