On Fri, 12 Mar 2004, Wayne Throop wrote: > I didn't see anybody else mention it, but it's worth noting > that the use of "plaintext" here is a cryptogaphic technical term, > meaning "the unencrypted form", as contrasted with "ciphertext". > The use in "data exchange [] is in plaintext" does not imply > that the data will be interpreted as ascii characters. > That is, it's not refering to the MIME type text/plain.
Thank you. I will retract my earlier accusation. I was not familiar with that definition of the term. Clearly, this implies that cryptographers see VNC encoded transmission as not meaningfully different from plain text telnet transmissions. The two definitions: http://www.pcwebopaedia.com/TERM/p/plain_text.html Best, Mike _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
