Woah, GrUMp. I wasn't trying to be *rude*.
The only only drugs I take are for headaches and sore throat
It was A JOKE. Kind of like a Malaphor...?
It was me insisting, in a dumb way, that there is a saying that every mountain was once a mole hill...or something like that
Come on, I was the one saying a few posts ago that I had no idea what it is, and frankly, I still find it complicating so much that that your first sentence sounded like tech no babble to me
grump wrote: ↑Sat Nov 27, 2021 11:02 am
Let me ask you a question that I was recently asked by another misguided member on this forum: are you on drugs?
Woah, who asked you that..?
The risk I took was calculated,
but man, am I bad at math.
Bitser is not cryptographically secure - it just allows you to encode and decode some data in non-destructive way, as it's a serializer. Not a way to (securely) encrypt data. If someone were to grab the data in transit, they could decode it with - you guessed it - bitser itself. Then they could just modify whatever they want, encode it and deliver the modified output forward. Sure, you might use some custom classes in your lua code and register them with bitser, which would make that process harder, but not impossible.
As such, yes, encoding is the better term to use here. Encryption implies security which bitser, by design, doesn't provide by itself. You could say bitser does make it harder for the layman to decipher the contents, but you can achieve that with just about any kind of obfuscation.