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On 2015-10-16, Chris M. Thomasson <nospam@nospam.nospam> wrote:
>> "Rich" wrote in message news:mvp9kt$ksp$1@dont-email.me...
>
>> > Chris M. Thomasson <nospam@nospam.nospam> wrote:
>> > >"Richard Heathfield" wrote in message 
>> > >news:mvo57c$ubk$1@dont-email.me...
>
>> > >>On 14/10/15 23:02, Rich wrote:
>> > >>> Chris M. Thomasson <nospam@nospam.nospam> wrote:
>> > [...]
>> > > >> What do you think about using a checkbox that allows a user to
>> > > >> generate ASCII hexbytes or raw output dumped into the ciphertext
>> > > >> textarea?
>> > > >
>> > > > A very bad idea.
>
>> > > Doesn't that rather depend on his objectives? If his intent is,
>> > > say, for people to grab the ciphertext so that they can (literally)
>> > > have a crack at it on their home machines, then the above may well
>> > > make this easier for them, which would be a good thing, right? It
>> > > sure beats copying and pasting 8947h ry4ifabdklf r4yu89w4 $^&*(
>> > > from an output window.
>
>> > This is exactly why I did it Richard, and I am sorry for not making
>> > this clear.
>
>> > ;^(
>
>> Thanks for the clarification, yes this was not clear.
>
> No problem, and sorry for any confusions I have caused.  ;^/
>
>
>
>> In fact you are
>> still not being overly clear. Are you building a "viewing interface"
>> which would sit in front of the crypto algorithm and provide different
>> visuals to someone using the interface?
>
> Yes.

But your statement that you wanted to strip off the 8th bit and present
that in a different file, and the formatting in yet another file seems
to belie that.

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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
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