From: Adam Shostack <adam@lighthouse.homeport.org>
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 1996 01:49:32 +0800
To: carboy@hooked.net (Michael E. Carboy)
Subject: Re: Cyphercoding Training Wheels??
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Message-ID: <199601301530.KAA07194@homeport.org>
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Michael E. Carboy wrote:

| I have been lurking as a newbie on the cypherpunks mailing list for =
| 'bout one month.  Have ordered Koblitz book on Number Theory and Applied =
| Cryptography.  As I slowly (and probably painfully) learn some number =
| theory, I would like to start coding, particularly as it would related =
| to encrypting and decrypting stuff.  I ask the community's input as to =
| whether I should use visual basic or visual C++ ??? I am using a =
| windoze95 platform.

When you consider that many of the people who will grab this code &
play with it DON'T run on MS scaffolding (its not really a platform
:), I'd suggest C++, and make sure you isolate the MS specific
portions, so that whatever you do can be ported.

Adam


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