Sujet : Re: The lost key
De : rjh (at) *nospam* cpax.org.uk (Richard Heathfield)
Groupes : sci.cryptDate : 30. Mar 2025, 00:02:37
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Organisation : Fix this later
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On 29/03/2025 22:43, Mini Mailer wrote:
SCOS is not well thought out. It should use the base64
alphabet
It does. It just doesn't confine itself to that alphabet.
and allow binary encoding as well.
Your comment is not well thought out. You should have stopped to think about what SCOS is /for/. Complaining about lack of support for binary encoding is like complaining that your car can't drive on rivers.
SCOS was designed to be a very light layer of encryption over sci.crypt chit-chat, and almost as easy to crack as ROT-13. It wasn't designed to encode binaries because Usenet is a text medium, and because people don't generally chit-chat in binaries.
-- Richard HeathfieldEmail: rjh at cpax dot org dot uk"Usenet is a strange place" - dmr 29 July 1999Sig line 4 vacant - apply within
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