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> "William Unruh" wrote in message news:mvk0hh$mf0$1@dont-email.me...

> > On 2015-10-13, Chris M. Thomasson <nospam@nospam.nospam> wrote:
> > wrote in message
> > news:9abd4bb5-a4a2-4504-96e5-dba3ac39cdc6@googlegroups.com...
[...]

> > WRT ASCII, I basically had to make the online version of my cipher 
> > convert a
> > plaintext into a series of
> > hexbytes in ASCII so that a user would not get a bunch of trash in the
> > ciphertext:
> >
> > http://funwithfractals.atspace.cc/ffe
> >
> > IMHO, I think encrypting the plaintext into a ciphertext of hexbytes wrt 
> > the
> > online version is a good thing
> > because a user can easily take a look at every byte of the ciphertext.

> And why does the user waht to look at any byte of the ciphertext?
> Sounds like a pretty pointless exercise.


That is fair enough William.

I can easily turn off the hexbyte conversion process, but then the
ciphertext will be a bunch of “gobbledygook” that is not going to be
pleasing to the eye of somebody who wants to visually examine it. What
if a user wants to examine the ciphertext directly without having to
look at a bunch of random symbols and non-printable characters directly
in the webpage?

Ahhh! I should make this an option, perhaps via checkbox that will
allow a user to see the hexbytes if they want to.

FWIW, I converted the ciphertext into hexbytes in ASCII because I
liked the way Richard Heathfield presented his ciphertext challenges
to this group. It worked great!

What do you think about using a checkbox that allows a user to generate
ASCII hexbytes or raw output dumped into the ciphertext textarea?

Thanks.

:^)

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Introduction me eaglesondouglas@gmail.com - 2015-10-12 10:26 -0700
  Re: Introduction me Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2015-10-12 17:45 +0000
    Re: Introduction me eaglesondouglas@gmail.com - 2015-10-13 08:28 -0700
      Re: Introduction me William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2015-10-13 16:09 +0000
      Re: Introduction me Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2015-10-13 16:19 +0000
  Re: Introduction me William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2015-10-12 17:46 +0000
    Re: Introduction me Karl-Uwe Frank <karl.frank@freecx.co.uk> - 2015-10-12 21:19 +0200
      Re: Introduction me Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2015-10-12 20:24 +0000
        Re: Introduction me Johan Wevers <johanw@vulcan.xs4all.nl> - 2015-10-13 10:08 +0200
          Re: Introduction me Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2015-10-13 16:20 +0000
          Re: Introduction me Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2015-10-13 16:24 +0000
            Re: Introduction me Nomen Nescio <nobody@dizum.com> - 2015-10-14 16:20 +0200
  Re: Introduction me Ribeiro Alvo <ribeiroalvo@gmail.com> - 2015-10-13 03:58 -0700
  Re: Introduction me "Chris M. Thomasson" <nospam@nospam.nospam> - 2015-10-13 14:35 -0700
    Re: Introduction me William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2015-10-13 22:28 +0000
      Re: Introduction me "Chris M. Thomasson" <nospam@nospam.nospam> - 2015-10-14 14:54 -0700
        Re: Introduction me Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2015-10-14 22:02 +0000
          Re: Introduction me gordonb.loovx@burditt.org (Gordon Burditt) - 2015-10-15 02:39 -0500
            Re: Introduction me William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2015-10-15 08:00 +0000
          Re: Introduction me Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2015-10-15 13:14 +0100
            Re: Introduction me "Chris M. Thomasson" <nospam@nospam.nospam> - 2015-10-15 12:13 -0700
              Re: Introduction me "Chris M. Thomasson" <nospam@nospam.nospam> - 2015-10-15 12:35 -0700
              Re: Introduction me Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2015-10-15 22:34 +0000
                Re: Introduction me "Chris M. Thomasson" <nospam@nospam.nospam> - 2015-10-16 01:15 -0700
                Re: Introduction me William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2015-10-16 18:02 +0000
                Re: Introduction me wizzofozz <oscxxxxxxxaas@gmail.com> - 2015-10-16 20:30 +0200
                Re: Introduction me Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2015-10-16 20:09 +0000
                Re: Introduction me "Chris M. Thomasson" <nospam@nospam.nospam> - 2015-10-19 14:45 -0700
              Re: Introduction me William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2015-10-15 23:16 +0000
        Re: Introduction me William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2015-10-14 22:48 +0000
  Re: Introduction me eaglesondouglas@gmail.com - 2015-10-14 08:03 -0700
    Re: Introduction me omnilobe@gmail.com - 2015-10-14 10:23 -0700
      Re: Introduction me William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2015-10-14 17:34 +0000
  Re: Introduction me eaglesondouglas@gmail.com - 2015-10-15 07:21 -0700
  Re: Introduction me Jeffrey Goldberg <nobody@goldmark.org> - 2015-10-18 12:56 -0500
    Re: Introduction me MM <mrvmurray@gmail.com> - 2015-10-18 11:44 -0700
    Re: Introduction me rpw3@rpw3.org (Rob Warnock) - 2015-10-18 18:57 +0000
      Re: Introduction me Jeffrey Goldberg <nobody@goldmark.org> - 2015-10-19 17:52 -0500

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