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Re: [Cryptography] encoding formats should not be committee'ised
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dave Horsfall)
Thu Oct 3 15:28:09 2013
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Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2013 03:24:28 +1000 (EST)
From: Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org>
To: Cryptography List <cryptography@metzdowd.com>
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On Thu, 3 Oct 2013, Peter Gutmann wrote:
> For those not familiar with TL1, "supposed to be readable" here means
> "encoded in ASCII rather than binary". It's about as readable as
> EDIFACT and HL7.
In a previous life I had to read, understand, and debug EDIFACT (it was
OpenLDAP, as I recall). It wasn't all that difficult; then again, at one
time I had to know APL\360 (once described as a write-only language).
Want crypto? Try obscurity :-)
-- Dave
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