Looking for a first project to play with, I rememberedCryptoPals. I did some of it several yearsago, and it was fun, so I thought it could be a good way to getfamiliar with Common Lisp, at least the first set. With that in mind,I had a look, and hear we are! The very first challenge is about hex and base64 encoding. The firsttime around I just used available libraries for both (I used Rust atthe time), but the point of this was to open some black boxes, so Idecided to implement everything fro...