Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.016 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 0.97; '*S*': 0.00; 'subject:Python': 0.05; 'received:80.91': 0.09; 'received:80.91.229': 0.09; 'received:gmane.org': 0.09; 'received:list': 0.09; 'assumptions': 0.16; 'did.': 0.16; 'mark.': 0.16; 'received:80.91.229.3': 0.16; 'received:plane.gmane.org': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.16; 'trying': 0.22; 'large,': 0.22; 'lawrence': 0.22; 'header:In-Reply-To:1': 0.24; 'words': 0.24; 'header:User-Agent:1': 0.26; 'header:X-Complaints- To:1': 0.26; 'ago': 0.27; 'said,': 0.27; "doesn't": 0.28; 'rest': 0.28; 'trouble': 0.31; 'received:comcast.net': 0.33; 'to:addr :python-list': 0.35; 'being': 0.36; 'too': 0.36; 'subject:: ': 0.37; 'received:org': 0.38; 'end': 0.39; 'pm,': 0.39; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.39; 'system.': 0.39; 'mark': 0.40; 'hope': 0.61; 'simple': 0.61; "you've": 0.61; 'more': 0.62; 'gave': 0.63; 'sincerely': 0.65; 'charset:windows-1252': 0.65; 'subject:Data': 0.66 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: python-list@python.org From: Randall Smith Subject: Re: Pure Python Data Mangling or Encrypting Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2015 19:12:08 -0500 References: <558b7e85$0$1648$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> <558bc912$0$2899$c3e8da3$76491128@news.astraweb.com> <558c1a7e$0$1668$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> <558d86b0$0$1659$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-98-251-140-107.hsd1.ms.comcast.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.7.0 In-Reply-To: X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20+ Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Message-ID: Lines: 20 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1435363941 news.xs4all.nl 2840 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:37813 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.stben.net!border1.nntp.ams1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed8.news.xs4all.nl!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:93212 On 06/26/2015 04:55 PM, Mark Lawrence wrote: > > To be perfectly blunt I gave up days ago trying to follow what was being > said, just too many words from all angles and too few diagrams for me to > follow. I sincerely hope it doesn't end in tears. > Mark. There's not much to follow. The solution was simple and complete. The original description was limited to a small part of a large, more complex system. The reason you've had trouble following is because several people made (very bad) assumptions about what the rest of the system did. Everything required for the solution was present in the original post. -Randall