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 -- "It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once." -Hume