[nfbcs] documents describing algorithms
Joseph C. Lininger
devnull-nfbcs at pcdesk.net
Thu Nov 7 02:32:58 UTC 2013
Good eevening folks,
I'm working on some documentation describing cryptographic algorithms
for a project I'm doing. The documents describe the algorithms, as well
as some of my thoughts on implementing them and optimizing them and
such. I wrote the documents to make it easier for me to write the code
for them, since describing them made them clearer in my mind. Here's my
question.
I am using LaTeX to typeset the documents so that they'll look good and
have proper symbology and such. Well, one of the reasons I'm including
these in my project is because it's so difficult to find algorithm
descriptions that are easily read by blind people. It's not the only
reason I'm doing it, but it is one of them. The pdf's I'm generating are
not horible, but some of the symbols do not read well with screen
readers. Is providing the LaTeX source good enough in that case? I don't
do anything fancy, so someone could almost certainly figure out the
algorithms and read my thoughts by reading the .tex file. Or do you guys
think I should be doing something else? I'm probably not willing to
translate to something like MathML because doing that would require me
to write the document twice and I really don't want to do that. I
suppose I could include an html version that would just read LaTeX for
the math formulas. Any thoughts would be appreciated. Also, I have one
document ready if anyone would like to take a look at it. It describes
the Blowfish algorithm.
Joe
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