[REBOL] Re: Encryption
From: mattsmac:hotmai:l at: 9-Sep-2003 10:53
Whoops, I ment Anton
>From: "Matt MacDonald" <[mattsmac--hotmail--com]>
>Reply-To: [rebol-list--rebol--com]
>To: [rebol-list--rebol--com]
>Subject: [REBOL] Re: Encryption
>Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2003 08:36:28 -0400
>
>Greg,
> This is the best and easiest solution anyone has given me. It's
>versatile
>enough to support all of the various applications in my program. It seems
>to be working perfectly. Thanks everyone for your help.
>
>Matt
>
>Re: Encryption
>Anton Rolls (antonr)
>9-Sep-2003/13:32:51+10:00
>#30965
>
>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>You can push your binary through a line port
>as text.
>Encrypt your text, which gives you a binary,
>then use enbase, which gives a string (and
>losing no information).
>On the other end use debase to get the binary
>back, then decrypt.
>
>Anton.
>
> >Ok, good enough. So if I'm understanding correctly. I should be able to
> >have 2 binary ports. One sending and one receiving. Then send the data
> >through the sending port (as binary) and recieve it on the
> >recieving port.
> >Then change it to string and parse it from there. Here is what
> >is happening
> >though:
> >
> >I send a simple message "Hi"
> >i have to do 2 reads on the recieving port, which returns 72 and
> >105 - both
> >integers. So my question is then, why do I get integers instead
> >of binary
> >data, and if I need to deal with integers and somehow convert them to
> >characters, how do I know when to stop reading from the recieving port?
> >
> >Please help this is reallllly frustrating,
> >
> >Matt
> >
> >Hi Matt,
> >
> >MM> Ok, maybe my inexperience is showing or I'm just dense. I
> >need to use
> >the
> >MM> line refinement so that I can get the entire line of the message at
> >once.
> >MM> But you cannot use the binary and line refinements at the same time.
> >How do
> >MM> I get around this?
> >
> >If you're sending binary data, there is no concept of "lines". You'll
> >have to send the data and decode it on the other end, breaking it up
> >in to lines there if necessary.
> >
> >-- Gregg
>
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