In-Reply-To: cme's message of Thu, 19 Aug 1993 10:37:54 -0400.
how important is the prng aspect of tran? presumably des-cbc does
a good job of bit diffusion. why is it better to tran than to
"dd conv=swab" or rot13? (or even to do nothing at all, simply
des-cbc|des-cbc|des-cbc?)
peter