<maybe offtopic> On Tue, 1 Oct 2013, someone who (if I've unwrapped the nested quoting correctly) might have been Jerry Leichter wrote: > There are three levels of construction. If you're putting together > a small garden shed, "it looks right" is generally enough - at least > if it's someone with sufficient experience. If you're talking > non-load-bearing walls, or even some that bear fairly small loads, > you follow standards - use 2x4's, space them 36" apart, [[...]]
Standard construction in US & Canada uses 2/4's on 16" (repeat: 16") centers. Perhaps there's a lesson here: leave carpentry to people who are experts at carpentry. </maybe offtopic> And leave crypto to people who are experts at crypto. -- -- "Jonathan Thornburg [remove -animal to reply]" <jth...@astro.indiana-zebra.edu> Dept of Astronomy & IUCSS, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA "There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. How often, or on what system, the Thought Police plugged in on any individual wire was guesswork. It was even conceivable that they watched everybody all the time." -- George Orwell, "1984" _______________________________________________ The cryptography mailing list cryptography@metzdowd.com http://www.metzdowd.com/mailman/listinfo/cryptography