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Subject: Re: Ada Connections to this Crypto.
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On 2014-12-14 18:20, Austin Obyrne wrote:

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>the real scope is that of the entire Latin_1 Character
> set 0 ... 255 and this is available to users.

You do realize that with 0 .. 255 you describe a byte.
And that _any_ file is made up by bytes.
Like images, movies, text, exe-files, databases ...

> I have been harassed by some readers with claims that 
>there are ways by which 'any' data can be called 
>(whatever that means)and encryption will still work.

As I said :
Like images, movies, text, exe-files, databases ...


They seem to be saying that this is done by
user-defined enumeration types
that can be used instead of ASCII or Latin-1.

Well no. That is your interpretation. I have not seen
anyone here state that.

> This ploy will not work in this cipher and

Ploy ? You may write your own ciphers,
but say pgp/gpg is no ploy.

> at best will not be viable long-term in the science of cryptology.

Most likely longer than yours.

--
Björn