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From: Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: The enormous potential that programming LaTeX in Ada presents.
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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!

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Denis McMahon, denismfmcmahon@gmail.com