My question was why is a proper MAC better than appending a checksum to the plain text and then encrypting. With an appended and encrypted checksum, the system could easily reject corrupted messages, that's the whole…
But if someone chooses a ciphertext (without knowing the key), how could they get the checksum right (which is also encrypted)? If the checksum was wrong, the system would refuse to decrypt the corrupted message.
His reasoning is actually quite flawed. Even if you believe there is somehow a black and white $7.7 trillion value difference between candidates, betting on such long odds still isn't rational. If we assume (using…
Not sure if I am understanding this correctly. By bootstrapping, do you mean C does only the most basic syntax parsing, and then a fexl script (written in a basic fexl subset) does the more complete parsing? All this…
It sounds like you're having a lot of fun with it. I think a C implementation would be better anyway. C is the common denominator between almost every language. Have you already done the foreign function interface to C?…
I'm not trying to rush you or anything. Just want to let you know that at least one person is still looking forward to seeing it.
Great! I'll be looking forward to it. I kind of have a thing for small languages.
This is probably a stupid question. If you have Fexl written in Perl now, what are the chances of just throwing a sand-boxed interpreter online for people to play with? I'm thinking just a form with an input field and a…
Is Fexl open-source, or even available for download? It looks pretty neat.
My question was why is a proper MAC better than appending a checksum to the plain text and then encrypting. With an appended and encrypted checksum, the system could easily reject corrupted messages, that's the whole…
But if someone chooses a ciphertext (without knowing the key), how could they get the checksum right (which is also encrypted)? If the checksum was wrong, the system would refuse to decrypt the corrupted message.
His reasoning is actually quite flawed. Even if you believe there is somehow a black and white $7.7 trillion value difference between candidates, betting on such long odds still isn't rational. If we assume (using…
Not sure if I am understanding this correctly. By bootstrapping, do you mean C does only the most basic syntax parsing, and then a fexl script (written in a basic fexl subset) does the more complete parsing? All this…
It sounds like you're having a lot of fun with it. I think a C implementation would be better anyway. C is the common denominator between almost every language. Have you already done the foreign function interface to C?…
I'm not trying to rush you or anything. Just want to let you know that at least one person is still looking forward to seeing it.
Great! I'll be looking forward to it. I kind of have a thing for small languages.
This is probably a stupid question. If you have Fexl written in Perl now, what are the chances of just throwing a sand-boxed interpreter online for people to play with? I'm thinking just a form with an input field and a…
Is Fexl open-source, or even available for download? It looks pretty neat.