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From: Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk>
Newsgroups: sci.crypt
Subject: Re: 43 18
Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2025 12:26:17 +0100
Organization: Fix this later
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On 30/03/2025 10:23, Mini Mailer wrote:
> 7TIF7LwSWzkdecLlTj8wu84q3TTxA7D5/xcwH3HJZjkkLbMsTjUvwrM72TEF9LEHDT/P7I/WFdH=

They are different programs with different purposes, so there's 
not much point in comparing them. For example, SCOS2 was designed 
to encrypt *only* printable ASCII, a restriction that in the 
quest for internationalisation your program completely 
overlooks... and that's fine, because they are different programs 
with different purposes. Your program also adds a layer of 
difficulty to ciphertext-only attacks, whereas SCOS2 was designed 
to be easy to attack. And that too is fine; they are different 
programs with different purposes.

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Richard Heathfield
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