Re: Hiding code from intruders, a different slant on an old question

2015-10-08 Thread Ian Kelly
On Thu, Oct 8, 2015 at 9:46 AM, alister wrote: > Oh please > the Caesar cypher was mentioned as a simplification for the purpose of > demonstration. > it was not intended to be even a remotely serious suggestion > > which I am sure at least Denis understood when he posted his tongue in > cheek rep

Re: Hiding code from intruders, a different slant on an old question

2015-10-08 Thread alister
On Thu, 08 Oct 2015 08:44:43 -0600, Ian Kelly wrote: > On Wed, Oct 7, 2015 at 6:01 PM, Dennis Lee Bieber > wrote: >> On Wed, 7 Oct 2015 13:05:07 + (UTC), alister >> declaimed the following: >> >> >>>With a simple Cesar the method is "shift the alphabet by 'X' characters >>>and X is the key >

Re: Hiding code from intruders, a different slant on an old question

2015-10-08 Thread Ian Kelly
On Wed, Oct 7, 2015 at 6:01 PM, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: > On Wed, 7 Oct 2015 13:05:07 + (UTC), alister > declaimed the following: > > >>With a simple Cesar the method is "shift the alphabet by 'X' characters >>and X is the key >> >>if the key is unknown then the attacker still has to brute f

Re: Hiding code from intruders, a different slant on an old question

2015-10-08 Thread cl
Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: > On Wed, 7 Oct 2015 13:05:07 + (UTC), alister > declaimed the following: > > > >With a simple Cesar the method is "shift the alphabet by 'X' characters > >and X is the key > > > >if the key is unknown then the attacker still has to brute force the > >method (admi

Re: Hiding code from intruders, a different slant on an old question

2015-10-07 Thread alister
On Wed, 07 Oct 2015 10:38:37 +0100, cl wrote: > I know questions similar to this are often asked but my reasons for > wanting to do this (and thus ways it can be done) are slightly > different. > > I have a number of little utility scripts (python and others) which I > use to automate the process

Re: Hiding code from intruders, a different slant on an old question

2015-10-07 Thread Littlefield, Tyler
On 10/7/2015 5:38 AM, c...@isbd.net wrote: > I know questions similar to this are often asked but my reasons for > wanting to do this (and thus ways it can be done) are slightly different. > > I have a number of little utility scripts (python and others) which I > use to automate the process of dec

Hiding code from intruders, a different slant on an old question

2015-10-07 Thread cl
I know questions similar to this are often asked but my reasons for wanting to do this (and thus ways it can be done) are slightly different. I have a number of little utility scripts (python and others) which I use to automate the process of decrypting and displaying things like files containing