Re: [ciphertool-devel] Upcoming release

[Alex G. <za...@za...>]

> I think this is enough of an improvement to warrant a new release.

I'm willing to help with the windows version if necessary.

> Any takers on providing some of this ciphertext?  To
> make it easy, we could probably just use the same plaintext string
> encrypted with different cipher algorithms.

I've included a list of single-line messages that I've been using for 
monoalphabetic cryptanalysis testing.  These are supposed to be short, 
not maliciously constructed, content-neutral, and in the public domain.  
Maybe they could be of use somewhere in ciphertool.  Longer text items 
could be needed for ciphertext-only analysis of messages encoded by 
stronger methods.  In any case I'm fine with the inclusion of ciphertext 
not holding up the ciphertool release.

I'm also interested in finding a longer list of public domain quotes or 
sayings like these.  I couldn't find any in project gutenberg, and the 
other sources I found were non-public-domain collections.  I created the 
short list here mostly from various proverbs.

- Alex


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