Encryption as confidentiality marker

[Pete Bentley]

Paul Crowley <paul@hedonism.demon.co.uk> writes:
> Paul Leyland <pleyland@microsoft.com> writes:
> > I've managed to implement full RC4 in 19 lines of BASIC [...]
> 
> I know I should be able to resist, but I'm afraid I can't, quite.
> This implementation of CipherSaber (based on RC4) is the fault of me
> and Jeff Allen:
> [4 lines of perl omitted]

All very well, but I believe this particular dicksize war was about
small, embedded systems such as vending machines.  There is a long
(and possibly inglorious :) history of embedding BASIC runtime
environments into small ROMs (eg 8 or 16K).  Perl runtimes on the
other hand tend to be.......bigger.

Pete.
yeah yeah, i'd still rather code in perl than basic but that's not the point