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From: "Johannes =?iso-8859-15?q?Gr=F8dem?=" <st@kopkillah.com>
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Subject: Re: Ada program needs to ping another machine.
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* Preben Randhol <randhol+abuse@pvv.org>:

> 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.  (Check out Applied
Cryptography by Bruce Schneier.)

-- 
johs