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Re: [aspell-devel] New Bengali Dictionary Ready But Author Does Not Want
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Kevin Atkinson |
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Re: [aspell-devel] New Bengali Dictionary Ready But Author Does Not Want to Release ... |
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Tue, 09 Nov 2004 19:47:26 -0700 (MST) |
On Tue, 9 Nov 2004, Lars Aronsson wrote:
> Jose Da Silva wrote:
> > however, no matter how much encryption and protection he can load on
> > it, determined thieves can and will figure it out and steal the
> > list(s).... all-the-much-easier due to the fact that the encryption
> > decoders they would use themselves are within the aspell open
> > source.
>
> This is not entirely true. An open source spelling program could use
> a list of one-way encrypted words, and use the same one-way encryption
> on each word before looking them up in the list. However, this would
> only prevent the listing (decrypting) of the dictionary. The encrypted
> dictionary could still be stolen and enhanced and used in another
> program that works the same way. The inability of such a program to
> suggest and list alternative spellings would also ruin the strength of
> Aspell.
Not to mention the fact that I am persoanlly agianst such a feture. That
is modifing Aspell so that it can support using of closed-source
dictionary, where the source is the list of words.
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