Re: [vhdl-200x-ft] Re: [vhdl-200x] IP Protection and Encryption Donation

Hey can you guys put this thread in just [VHDL-200x-ft] OR [VHDL-200x]?
I'm seeing double for each of your messages.

Thanks.

Jay Lawrence wrote:

>No we didn't specifically look at this one but it sounds like a great
>topic for those working on this proposal!
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>In particular, maybe if we believe this is going to change over time or
>want to support internationalization concerns then the "encoding"
>directive may be desirable.
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>Jay
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Marcus Harnisch [mailto:marcus_harnisch@mint-tech.com]
>>Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2004 12:49 PM
>>To: Jay Lawrence
>>Cc: vhdl-200x@eda.org; vhdl-200x-ft@eda.org
>>Subject: RE: [vhdl-200x-ft] Re: [vhdl-200x] IP Protection and
>>Encryption Donation
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>>Hi Jay,
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>>Jay Lawrence writes:
>> > Because I'm basically lazy and google is faster than my
>>math, I found
>> > the following
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>> > http://www.geocities.com/herong_yang/data/uuencode.html
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>> > It contains a table of the printable range in uuencoded
>>text and you are
>> > correct it does not contain lower case letters. The example should
>> > probably be updated to have actual encrypted/encoded text.
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>>Do you know whether BASE64 was considered as encoding scheme and
>>whether uuencode was preferred?
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>>BASE64 is well standardized and generally used in MIME email
>>(http://www.mhonarc.org/~ehood/MIME/2045/rfc2045.html#6.8) to encode
>>binary data. There are plenty of codecs floating around.
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>>I remember reading this in the mmencode(1) man-page:
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>> RATIONALE
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>> Mimencode is intended to be a replacement for uuencode for mail
>> and news use. The reason is simple: uuencode doesn't work very
>> well in a number of circumstances and ways. In particular,
>> uuencode uses characters that don't translate well across all mail
>> gateways (particularly ASCII <-> EBCDIC gateways). Also, uuencode
>> is not standard -- there are several variants floating around,
>> encoding and decoding things in different and incompatible ways,
>> with no "standard" on which to base an implementation. [...]
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>>Best regards,
>>Marcus
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>>--
>>Marcus Harnisch | Mint Technology, a division
>>of LSI Logic
>>marcus_harnisch@mint-tech.com | 200 West Street, Waltham, MA 02431
>>Tel: +1-781-768-0772 | http://www.lsilogic.com
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Received on Thu May 20 10:28:55 2004