You're still completely wrong. I'm willing to spend my own money to ship you hardcopy references that will help you better yourself, in the hope that you will stop dispensing the sort of horrid advice you're continuing to regurgitate here. Why aren't you willing to take me up on this offer? Are you unable to provide a shipping address of any sort?

To be clear, advice similar to the sort you administered in the post I originally replied to is an apt explanation for why we have the number of massive failures in cryptographic functionality in software these days. You have absolutely no business even beginning to comment on this subject. May I please ship you a few hardcopy references?

Please demonstrate how I'm wrong. You just became a personal project of mine.

The War on Drugs is a massively successful enterprise if your definition of success is the ability to extract billions of USD worth of funding from taxpayers, with a disproportionate amount of said funding going to the overt militarization of police forces in the USA at the expense of civil liberties and human rights. However, if your indicators of success are tied to social, medical, or economic improvement for the citizens of the United States of America, the entire affair is indeed a massive failure.

For reference, this is coming from someone who consumes nothing more than nicotine (vaping these days, gave up cigarettes after 20 years) and whiskey, and once wore an actual military uniform for a living.

Look, seriously, provide an address and I'll ship you a fucking copy of the book. Your choice.

You must have missed the motherfucking literary reference I linked. Read the fucking book (and hopefully a few more), you fucking retard.

"Business Analyst at Faccenda Group Ltd" ... it's almost worth reaching out to your employer to explain the more esoteric aspects of your ignorance here. Perhaps I'd spare a few clients the pain of professional malfeasance.

No, it was not informative, unless you're referring to being informed that the GP is hopelessly ignorant (plus you by extension). Start here.

With this remark, you also fail at crypto and information theory in the context of this discussion. No, the GP's suggestion does not pass the smell test. Why did you bother commenting?

Hint: 30 seconds of my time leads me to believe this applies to you: Pennsylvania’s New Right to Know Law. If I'm in error on the state in question, please let me know, and I'll be more than glad to guide you to the appropriate legislation for your jurisdiction.

You should probably resign tomorrow on grounds of not understanding the legal statutes you're subject to. Perhaps you should have consulted an attorney. I'm sure the taxpayers supporting your salary would be dismayed to learn you don't understand your own job requirements.

I'm appalled that your post has been modded "informative." Please do us all a favor and abstain from any future posts on cryptography. Instead, I recommend you spend your time with resources like Applied Cryptography. Seriously, please put down the shovel, and if you're doing anything involving crypto for a living, please do the world a favor and resign today.

The United States dollar is the currency preferred by drug dealers, whose trade is in fact made more profitable by the failed "War on Drugs".

That clears everything up. Thanks.

First things first: the name was "McCarthy," not "Mc Carty." As for the substance of your post, (1) did you reply to the wrong post, (2) did you fail to read the post you replied to, or (3) all of the above?