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From: Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Ada Connections to this Crypto.
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2014 01:07:44 +0000 (UTC)
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On Wed, 17 Dec 2014 23:43:42 +0000, Simon Clubley wrote:

> On 2014-12-16, mrvmurray@gmail.com <mrvmurray@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Tuesday, 16 December 2014 13:47:27 UTC+2, jo...@peppermind.com 
>> wrote:
>>> Sticking to ASCII makes your program outdated from the start.

>> This fellow's problem is that he has very poor computing skills (among
>> other issues). He thinks his ASCII-only encryption is the answer to all
>> crypto questions.

> I wonder if we should introduce him to full disk encryption and see how
> that fits into his ASCII only world view. That should get rid of his
> ASCII only concept once and for all.

Nope, he'll simply respond that whole disk encryption can not be the 
solution when the problem with current encryption systems is that they 
have to work with binary number systems.

Therefore, in his worldview, the solution is to convert the contents of 
the disk to ascii and then encrypt it at a 10:1 size expansion.

Of course, the fact that at least one other poster has been able to 
bruteforce his encryption already means nothing to him, he is still of 
the unshakeable belief that the problem with current cryptosystems is 
that they use binary numbers, and that his trivially easy to bruteforce 
system is perfect and unbreakable.

I'm still waiting for him to demonstrate, rather than theorise, the 
"inherent fallibility of binary based cryptosystems to attack".

I paraphrase his comments, I hope I present the idea of what he keeps 
saying fairly accurately.

-- 
Denis McMahon, denismfmcmahon@gmail.com