From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
Subject: Re: A matter of interest.
Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2014 12:49:40 +0000
Date: 2014-11-30T12:49:40+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <lywq6cn997.fsf@pushface.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 8f7e0b44-14a7-4e39-8910-d8f6e553b904@googlegroups.com
Austin Obyrne <austin.obyrne@hotmail.com> writes:
> The file of 49471 Ada sourcecode characters encrypted and decrypted
> perfectly which I knew it would anyway so I decided next I would test
> the fidelity (a privately coined word that I think is apt but is not
> normal crypto jargon just for your info) of the entire experiment in
> cryptology by test-running the decrypted source code as (message-text
> now) in my Ada-Gide editor - it compiled and ran perfectly without any
> editing and immediately encrypted some test programs itself.
This is good, but as a method of testing I'd have used a byte-by-byte
comparison of original/decrypted files. In a Unix environment, I'd use
cmp(1).
http://unixhelp.ed.ac.uk/CGI/man-cgi?cmp
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-11-30 12:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-11-30 12:10 A matter of interest Austin Obyrne
2014-11-30 12:49 ` Simon Wright [this message]
2014-11-30 13:24 ` Austin Obyrne
2014-11-30 16:09 ` Björn Lundin
2014-11-30 17:07 ` brbarkstrom
2014-11-30 18:12 ` Simon Wright
2014-11-30 19:56 ` brbarkstrom
2014-12-01 16:24 ` Denis McMahon
2014-12-01 20:29 ` Austin Obyrne
2014-12-01 23:49 ` Jeffrey Carter
2014-12-02 2:24 ` David Botton
2014-12-02 7:52 ` mrvmurray
2014-12-02 2:43 ` Austin Obyrne
2014-12-03 3:40 ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2014-12-01 19:36 ` Eryndlia Mavourneen
2014-12-01 19:48 ` mrvmurray
replies disabled
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox