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Blum–Goldwasser cryptosystem
... to start the Cryptography/Blum-Goldwasser page. I wish this book had correct and relatively easy-to-understand explanations of this and other public-key systems. Why start from scratch? --DavidCary (discuss • contribs) 13:52, 18 November 2013 (UTC)


 * ✅ and now at Cryptography/Blum-Goldwasser. --Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 14:39, 18 November 2013 (UTC)


 * Thank you. --DavidCary (discuss • contribs) 13:10, 24 November 2013 (UTC)

Glossary templates from Wikipedia
I have created a glossary for the book Lua programming. Some limitations of the wikisyntax for definition lists can be overcomed by some glossary templates currently available on the English Wikipedia. These templates would be useful for this glossary, another I am going to create for the book ROBLOX Game Development at some point, and possibly other books.


 * Wikipedia:Template:Gloss
 * Wikipedia:Template:Term
 * Wikipedia:Template:Defn
 * Wikipedia:Template:Glossend
 * Wikipedia:Template:Glossary link
 * Wikipedia:Template:Glossary link internal
 * Wikipedia:Template:Ghat

I have looked at the code of these templates and I do not think importing other templates or pages is necessary for them to work, but I might have missed one. Of course, this excludes the template documentation; the best way to deal with it, I suppose, is to just reference to the documentation on Wikipedia (because otherwise, it becomes a nightmare to maintain). --Mark Otaris (discuss • contribs) 21:59, 23 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Generally, one would want to import the documentation along with the template, because the documentation on Wikipedia would describe the version of the template on Wikipedia, and if the version there changes and its documentation is updated accordingly, one would then be without documentation for the version of the template one actually has on hand here. --Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 23:07, 23 November 2013 (UTC)
 * That makes sense. However, it has the inconvenient that since documentation pages on Wikipedia use many templates that themselves use other templates that themselves use other templates, we'd need to import at least 25 templates, as well as some Lua modules, at the same time as importing the documentation pages. There are some other options (using the permanent link to a previous version of the documentation page, but then we cannot change the template; importing the documentation pages and stripping them of superfluous templates, but that takes a lot of time, etc.), but they all seem to me to have problems. What is usually done when templates need to be imported? --Mark Otaris (discuss • contribs) 02:00, 25 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Yet another example of the ossifying consequences of Lua. &lt;sigh&gt;
 * Looking back in time, anyway, there seem to be lots of .../doc imports in the import log. --Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 04:32, 25 November 2013 (UTC)