Reply to post: Re: Intelligible non-decryption

Read America's insane draft crypto-borking law that no one's willing to admit they wrote

Someone_Somewhere

Re: Intelligible non-decryption

Why would you sanitise it in the first place?

It's the source-code that you will subsequently feed into a whitespace compiler/interpreter that knows to expect code written in whitespace and won't, therefore, sanitise it but compile/interpret it.*

You then run the resultant binary (if one is necessary**) - which generates the desired 'plaintext' (so to speak) output.

It's only an n>1 party that would be likely to mistake it for a corrupted 'document' - you (and any other parties privy to it) know otherwise and won't make the mistake of doing anything else with it.

Or have I misunderstood the point you are making?

* assuming, of course, that there are no syntax errors.

** which, of course, it /wouldn't/ be, if it were being interpreted.

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