Re: The enormous potential that programming LaTeX in Ada presents.

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

On Wednesday, December 3, 2014 10:35:03 PM UTC, Denis McMahon wrote:
> On Wed, 03 Dec 2014 12:48:19 -0800, Austin Obyrne wrote:
> 
> > Current cryptography is capable of encrypting ASCII and at most the
> > entire Latin-1 set.
> 
> Wrong. Current cryptography is capable of encrypting any bit stream. As 
> any file can be presented as a bit stream, this means that current 
> cryptography can encrypt any file. This includes all symbols, and any 
> other data that can be encoded into a file using any character set 
> encoding that you care to use. Korean, Mandarin, Cyrillic, Greek, Hebrew, 
> Arabic, they can all be encoded electronically in files using appropriate 
> character encoding and the files can be encrypted, as can audio files, 
> images, movies, anything that can be represented as a stream of bits.
> 
> So your basic premise, that there is some arbitrary restriction of 
> current encryption to a specific character set is fundamentally wrong!
> 
> -- 
> Denis McMahon, denismfmcmahon@gmail.com

Yes - what you say is definitively true if you mean using Unicode - I had in mind the average user who wants to spontaneously encrypt on a handheld tablet during a lunch break say.

Playing with semantics doesn't hide the fact that many cryptographers are just playing with the box that other peoples' thoughts comes in and just cannot write ciphers of their own.

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