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On Sun, 30 Nov 2014 11:56:09 -0800, brbarkstrom wrote:

> Fair enough.  However, I think he should use the available Ada versions
> of standard encryption algorithms.  Those will save his time and worries
> about security by the user community.  While I have a PhD in astronomy
> and had several years of advanced math as an undergraduate, I do not
> have the mathematical qualifications to build a new encryption
> algorithm.  Folks who do that kind of work need to have a very deep
> understanding of number theory and related subjects.  'Nuff said.

Generic +1

Dan Boneh at Stanford runs online cryptography courses. The biggest thing 
I learned from his courses was "leave it to the experts, because well 
meaning amateurs haven't a hope in hell of getting it right"

-- 
Denis McMahon, denismfmcmahon@gmail.com