Re: Humanly Readable Code

On 25 Sep 2003 20:10:56 -0700, Micah Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
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>> On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 22:13:50 -0600, "Luc The Perverse"
>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>> >Hi - I would like to make a humanly readable code based on the english
>> >language.
>> 
>> Ummmm, a high level language, huh? Sorry, someone had the idea first,
>> Try C, C++, Java, etc.
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>He didn't say high level language, he said humanly readable
>code. On sci.crypt.*, you'd think the first thing to spring to
>one's mind would be "cipher", not "source".
>
>> 
>> >  So Obviously it cannot entail ridiculous amounts of mathmatical
>> >inference.  At the same time I wouldn't like my belovedcoworker Jason to be
>> >able to sit down and crack it in a matter of 6-10 hours with only one hint
>> >like he has done with my last code (though it is a vast improvement over my
>> >first code which he broke in 20 minutes).  Maybe most people cracking my
>> >codes won't have a degree in CE,yet  I don't see how a Masters in CE has
>> >anything to do with breaking a simple english code.
>> >
>> >I keep expecting the random digits to throw him off, and they simply don't.
>> 
>> double random seed.
>> Nuff said.
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>Nonsense. Doesn't matter how random the digits are, if the basic
>code is still a basic cipher subject to standard analysis.
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>> >Of course to practice my new code, I will make a computer program
>> 
>> #snickers
>> 
>> Yeah right. I'll believe that when you can post to Usenet without
>> using outhouse express.
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>You're implying that Microsoft software developers don't exist?
>Or even that Linux (or other) developers don't have to sometimes
>write messages from their (unfortunately) Microsoft-centric
>desktops at work?
>
>> > which
>> >allows me to translate in both directions and keeps checking me, until I can
>> >get up to 10-20 WPM at deciphering and enciphering.
>> 
>> encyphering? 
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>The correct word (as he used it) was enciphering. And on that note...
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>> >  I will hide, remove or
>> >encode all punctuation so the user can't use them to draw off of.
>> 
>> You are an idiot.
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>You sound so smart just saying that. Tsch.
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>> HAND
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>Obviously tongue-in-cheek.
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>Clearly a script-kiddie who thinks he knows something.

Nope, just a troll, but thanx for playing.