Subject: Re: [lojban] common words

From: Invent Yourself <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2000 14:31:28 -0500 (EST)

On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, Jim Carter wrote:

> On Sun, 3 Dec 2000, Pierre Abbat wrote:
> > Okay, so what do we call "codes" such as ASCII, Unicode, Morse, and Big5 which
> > aren't secret? Are they also termifra, as are PGP, Blowfish, and the lead-bound
> > code book on a ship?
>
> To me the essence of a "code" is secrecy, so the "American Standard Code
> for Information Interchange" has a name which is an oxymoron. I'm inclined
> to call it an "alphabet" suited to a particular medium (te ciska) and
> language in the way that Roman glyphs are suited to ink on paper.

Digital encoding is different from digital encryption. Now the term code
just means to write something in a particular method, whereas encryption
implies the intent of secrecy.

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