Cryptography-Digest Digest #233, Volume #11 Thu, 2 Mar 00 02:13:01 EST
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Re: Best language for encryption?? ("ink")
Re: CRC-16 Reverse Algorithm ? (D. J. Bernstein)
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From: "ink" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Best language for encryption??
Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2000 07:13:59 +0100
Paul Schlyter Wrote...
>In article <89iob5$k7r$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, ink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
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>> Paul Schlyter schrieb in Nachricht <89ihfs$3m7$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>>>In article <1SYu4.12$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>>>Adam Durana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>>>> BASIC is great for learning structured programming,
>>>
>>>:-) ... no, it's indeed not! But it's great for learning
>>>spagetti programming....
>>
>> With all due respect, Adam, I have to second Paul's
>> opinion. I've been through most of the common languages,
>> and if there's one that is *not* suitable for learning
>> structured programming, it's BASIC - any kind of BASIC.
>>
>> If you want to *learn* structured programming, try
>> Pascal, Modula, Objective C or something like that.
>
>As a matter of fact, Subjective C (= good ol' ANSI C) is
>fine for learning structured progamming too. Don't confuse
>structured programming with object-oriented programming.
I wasn't excluding C - I was merely naming a few examples.
Kurt
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (D. J. Bernstein)
Subject: Re: CRC-16 Reverse Algorithm ?
Date: 2 Mar 2000 06:18:01 GMT
Douglas A. Gwyn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The simple fact is, there are some garbles that *any* CRC scheme
> will fail to detect.
False. If you have two different messages up to a billion bits long, for
example, then that difference will be detected by more than 99.99999% of
the possible CRC-64 polynomials.
---Dan
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