On Tue, 9 Nov 2004, Lars Aronsson wrote: > Jose Da Silva wrote: > > however, no matter how much encryption and protection he can load on > > it, determined thieves can and will figure it out and steal the > > list(s).... all-the-much-easier due to the fact that the encryption > > decoders they would use themselves are within the aspell open > > source. > > This is not entirely true. An open source spelling program could use > a list of one-way encrypted words, and use the same one-way encryption > on each word before looking them up in the list. However, this would > only prevent the listing (decrypting) of the dictionary. The encrypted > dictionary could still be stolen and enhanced and used in another > program that works the same way. The inability of such a program to > suggest and list alternative spellings would also ruin the strength of > Aspell.
Not to mention the fact that I am persoanlly agianst such a feture. That is modifing Aspell so that it can support using of closed-source dictionary, where the source is the list of words. -- http://kevin.atkinson.dhs.org _______________________________________________ Aspell-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/aspell-devel
