Re: Encrypting binary and text data

On Tue, 23 Oct 2007, in the Usenet newsgroup comp.security.misc, in article
<1193195226.614239.245100@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Dash wrote:

A general question ... are you from Microsoft?

Well, you _are_ posting from a search engine instead of the news
server your ISP provides, so you really could use that to attempt to
find out. I know that the short strings to the right of the '@' sign
in a posting address are hard to figure out, but if you REALLY put your
mind to it, you might discover he works for a Canadian government
scientific research organization, though like most of us he's not
speaking officially or unofficially for that organization.

I am asking you this question because you have spoken line a true
MS techie but provided no help at all to the poor soul who asked
the question.

In other words, you haven't a clue about Usenet, and couldn't figure
out the first sentence of the reply, where he referred the O/P to the
group 'sci.crypt'.

Usenet comes from a service invented at the University of North Carolina
back in 1980 - about a year before your heros at microsoft invented the
computer or what-ever they claim now. It's not the "web" which was
invented at CERN in Switzerland in roughly 1990, although for the past
ten years you've been able to use a web server to access Usenet.

If you put the letters 'sci.crypt' into the "Search For" window in the
search engine you are using now, the first thing that turns up is

Web Results 1 - 10 of about 140,000 for sci.crypt. (0.21 seconds)

Discussions - sci.crypt | Google Groups
sci . crypt. Discussions · + new post · About this group · Subscribe to
this group. This is a Usenet group - learn more ...
groups.google.com/group/sci.crypt - 42k - Cached - Similar pages

Now that actual newsgroup probably won't be of much use to you, because
the last time I looked they were using technical words like 'mathematics'
and 'probability' but the short description of that group is

sci.crypt Different methods of data en/decryption.

just as the short description of this Usenet group is

comp.security.misc Security issues of computers and networks.

If all you can do it click on some icon and hope that it does something
good, neither group is likely to interesting.

Old guy
.

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