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XOR II

Cryptography-Digest Digest #128

From: Anthony Stephen Szopa <anthony@ciphile.com>
Crossposted-To: alt.freespeech,talk.politics.misc,talk.politics.crypto
Subject: Re: Updated XOR Software Utility (freeware) Version 1.1 from Ciphile
Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2000 21:35:40 -0800

Scott Craver wrote:
>
> Richard Heathfield  <binary@eton.powernet.co.uk> wrote:
> >
> >Mr Szopa's program is 315392 bytes in size after decompression. No
> >source code is provided. I know I'm not the only one to think this to be
> >the height of lameness.
>
>         That's a pretty big increase between versions.  Wow.  And
>         all it does is XOR?
>
> >So, perhaps not unnaturally, I wondered (purely in the spirit of scientific
> >enquiry, as befits a sci. newsgroup) if it were possible to write an
> >even lamer program. I tried hard. But did I succeed?
>
>         [snip]  Amazing. Maybe you should run speed tests.
>
>         The funny thing about Mr. Szopa's utility is that, before he
>         posted it, we were only suspicious of his algorithm, and his animosity
>         towards people who wanted to analyze his algorithm.  Now, he
>         accidentally gives away that his skills as a programmer might be a
>         problem too, by making an unbeatably HUGE binary to perform one of the
>         simplest operations on two files, *and* somehow making the first
>         version unable to XOR files in different directories.  I didn't even
>         know that this kind of deficiency was possible with the full-blown
>         canned File Open dialog boxes in Win32 and MFC.
>
>         But the really funny part is his apparent air of superiority as
>         a result, despite very obvious size and performance difference between
>         his and others' software.
>
>                                                                         -S


Are you are a confirmed fool?

Would only fools believe you?

What?

Here's what:

"despite very obvious size and performance difference between his
and others' software."

Correct me if I am wrong:  where has anyone posted performance specs
between my XOR software and others, and are they material?  For
instance, how many milliseconds difference is there between mine
and some other program XORing a 3MB file?

I read a book once on the CIA.  Here is how they work.  They get
some news agency they pay off in one country to post a bogus story.
Then they have American news services pick up on it and start
spreading it around in the US.

I hope you and your friends are having lots of fun.

Your routine is too pat.  It shows.

Don't people in these news groups think there are people who post
in these news groups who have agendas:  commercial, political, etc.?

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