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 10.58.188.113 with SMTP id fz17mr1913101vec.26.1386813347098; Wed, 11 Dec 2013 17:55:47 -0800 (PST) X-Received: by 10.182.96.135 with SMTP id ds7mr60483obb.1.1386813347038; Wed, 11 Dec 2013 17:55:47 -0800 (PST) Path: backlog1.nntp.ams.giganews.com!border3.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!news.osn.de!diablo2.news.osn.de!news.glorb.com!p15no20381094qaj.0!news-out.google.com!p7ni15680qat.0!nntp.google.com!ie8no9810285qab.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2013 17:55:46 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <58ec425e-be31-45d7-876b-0ef7c8dbeec2@googlegroups.com> Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=86.140.183.44; posting-account=pmkN8QoAAAAtIhXRUfydb0SCISnwaeyg NNTP-Posting-Host: 86.140.183.44 References: <1d445f04-b670-444f-9858-55da271fe17a@googlegroups.com> <2b6dc37f-4aa6-4c18-be59-8c09f6f37f01@googlegroups.com> <52a87c86$0$6659$9b4e6d93@newsspool2.arcor-online.net> <6addc5a4-8cb4-48a7-abb0-b62105e7c13d@googlegroups.com> <5b2ad24d-edf4-4621-a82d-6972e7d90f52@googlegroups.com> <3d86f2fc-66d2-4b6d-b2ac-c6d6cfe1cd43@googlegroups.com> <58ec425e-be31-45d7-876b-0ef7c8dbeec2@googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: Subject: 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. From: Austin Obyrne Injection-Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2013 01:55:47 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: 2013-12-11T17:55:46-08:00 List-Id: On Wednesday, December 11, 2013 5:54:44 PM UTC, Eryndlia Mavourneen wrote: > On Wednesday, December 11, 2013 11:37:37 AM UTC-6, Austin Obyrne wrote: >= In passing, this concept of muutual databases totally obviates the histori= cal problem of embedded key transport that was extremely vulnerable and too= k a lot of study time by researchers of the day. > > Does this concept stan= d up in your estimation i.e, the system-specific EoF and EoM markers that y= ou say can vary. > > Interesting point solved I hope - do you accept this? = > > Austin Only if you are dealing strictly with plain, vanilla text with n= o formatting as would be inserted by a word processor such as MS Word, Open= Office, LibreOffice and others -- not to mention non-text files. The additi= onal information in these types of files potentially is critical to the rec= eiver's understanding of the writer's intent. More importantly perhaps, thi= s approach deliberately excludes a vast number of file types, which, it see= ms, are cast away as being deemed unworthy of encryption. Additionally, the= work to change how the files are handled within the Ada program is so triv= ial that it boggles the mind why someone would choose to stick with Text_IO= . -- Eryndlia Mavourneen (KK1T) I agree with what you say but for the present we have to work with whay we'= ve got but I agree - the writing is on the wall for change. Clearly, all formatting is lost in current encryption and that must be chan= ged in time to come which is why I say that 'IT' is still in very early day= s albeit half a century in existence. We just cannot go on for very long m= ore with primitive communications. The whole of IT is in a state of flux a= nd even I can see that change simply has to come. This change will have to be totally accomodating to the layman however and = not just the preserve of a few intellectuals who amuse themselves at the di= zzy heights of news groups by swapping jargon that is often beyond the ken = of ordinary readers. That is not a swipe at anybody but it is true just th= e same. It seems to be trendy to sound knowing and instead readers should = go into 'teacher' mode when they post so that as many people as possible wi= ll benefit from what they say. It is not patronising to do this. Good to hear. Austin