Re: [ANN] NumberScript -- a little language that compiles to Lua

[KHMan <keinhong@...>]

On 6/25/2012 11:26 PM, Rob Kendrick wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 04:20:46PM +0100, Rob Kendrick wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 11:28:30AM -0300, Roberto Ierusalimschy wrote:
> > > > On 25/06/2012 9.06, Enrico Colombini wrote:
> > > > > But programs should compress better :-)
> > > >
> > > > I take that back: of course it will have the same information content.
> > >
> > > Encripted files have exactly the same information content of the
> > > original, but usually they do not compress at all.
> >
> > This is because it is important that your ciphertext is extinguishable
> > from random data.
>
> Indistinguishable, obviously.  I think it's time I went home.

It's not encrypted in a strong-encryption-method sense, I think 
[1], but the compression outcome should be similar.

[1] https://github.com/whoopdedo/number-lua/blob/master/lib/script.lua

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Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia