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 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,a79652a22930869 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-01-17 14:31:41 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!newsfeed.direct.ca!look.ca!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!212.37.1.10!newsfeed01.nntp.se.dataphone.net!nntp.se.dataphone.net!newsfeed1.bredband.com!bredband!uio.no!nntp.uio.no!ifi.uio.no!not-for-mail From: "Johannes =?iso-8859-15?q?Gr=F8dem?=" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada program needs to ping another machine. Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 23:31:43 +0100 Organization: Dept. of Informatics, Univ. of Oslo, Norway Message-ID: References: <87d708r6ur.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: thrir.ifi.uio.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: maud.ifi.uio.no 1011306700 3282 129.240.66.152 (17 Jan 2002 22:31:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@ifi.uio.no NNTP-Posting-Date: 17 Jan 2002 22:31:40 GMT User-Agent: Gnus/5.090004 (Oort Gnus v0.04) Emacs/21.1 (i386--freebsd) Cancel-Lock: sha1:tt9M4db81rhpjml5g7UnXceW/Wk= Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:19030 Date: 2002-01-17T22:31:40+00:00 List-Id: * Florian Weimer : >>> I don't know if it makes sense trying to encrypt one >>> character, but I haven't read much about encryption so I do not know. >> It makes perfect sense. SSH does it, for example. > No, it doesn't. It adds a substantial amount of padding. I didn't say it sent only one character at a time. But it encrypts one character at a time, right? (Well, with the default mode, anyway. CFB? OFB?) -- johs