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[Moneo]

Moneo:

Thanks for your explanations. I am not really into encryption, so I think that one would receive an encripted message from someone, say on a piece of paper, then one would turn to the computer, get the decrypter running, and type in the message.

Using your method, i guess the encrypted code would come in as an email or attachment, then one would read it, either with the decryption program directly, or with some editor that would allow a file to be made, then the decrypter would read that file and print out the message.

Does the above come close?

Yes, I think you have the idea.

For the piece of paper version, yes, you would need to have a modified encryption algorithm that produced only printable characters. Starting with the Ethan Winer algorithm that I gave you, it could be modified to this end.

Email would not be good to contain the encrypted text. You would have to put it into an attachment, and probably set the file extension to .TXT to let the email system accept it. You have to do the same thing when sending executable files.

You would feed the encrypted file directly into the encrypt/decrypt program. Forget about the editor stuff.

Let me know if you need more help with this.
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