For a Windows mostly WYSIWIG LaTeX front-end, check out Scientific Word from MacKichan; you can insert raw LaTeX, or you can ignore the LaTeX and just treat it as a really math-capable word processor. (And as a word processor, almost everything can be done from the keyboard, so its much quicker to write math than the Word equation editor).
It's a cool program.
The strongest form of cryptography was invented in the 19th century and does not require a computer (XOR against one-time-pad), though computers certainly make it faster
To pick some nits, the One-Time Pad (OTP) cryptosystem has perfect secrecy. So in that sense, it's at least as strong as any other cryptosystem. However, it lacks features that
are found in more sophisticated systems, such as protection from a known-plaintext attack or even authentication.
Those facts, plus its requirement that a key the maximum length of a future message be sent ahead of time via secure channels, means that it is not
necessarily the best cryptosystem.
So saying that it's the strongest is true only in a limited sense. From the perspective of the public, they might prefer it if "terrorists" went back to hand-encoding/decoding messages, since investigative agencies have a better chance of breaking the key distribution than breaking some of the modern ciphers.
actually, li is "load immediate", used in specifying a constant. No matter how straightforward
the assembly, I'd rather be programming in C, because a lot of the bookkeeping is simply tedious,
without really adding much to the process. A good compiler should be able to do as well as all but the really good programmers, but humans'll still run the risk of getting tired. The compiler won't.
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Nope. Sing is not a gerund, yet is a verb ending with 'ing'.
For a Windows mostly WYSIWIG LaTeX front-end, check out Scientific Word from MacKichan; you can insert raw LaTeX, or you can ignore the LaTeX and just treat it as a really math-capable word processor. (And as a word processor, almost everything can be done from the keyboard, so its much quicker to write math than the Word equation editor). It's a cool program.
To pick some nits, the One-Time Pad (OTP) cryptosystem has perfect secrecy. So in that sense, it's at least as strong as any other cryptosystem. However, it lacks features that are found in more sophisticated systems, such as protection from a known-plaintext attack or even authentication.
Those facts, plus its requirement that a key the maximum length of a future message be sent ahead of time via secure channels, means that it is not necessarily the best cryptosystem.
So saying that it's the strongest is true only in a limited sense. From the perspective of the public, they might prefer it if "terrorists" went back to hand-encoding/decoding messages, since investigative agencies have a better chance of breaking the key distribution than breaking some of the modern ciphers.
actually, li is "load immediate", used in specifying a constant. No matter how straightforward the assembly, I'd rather be programming in C, because a lot of the bookkeeping is simply tedious, without really adding much to the process. A good compiler should be able to do as well as all but the really good programmers, but humans'll still run the risk of getting tired. The compiler won't.