From owner-freebsd-security Mon Feb 21 17: 5:43 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from alcanet.com.au (mail.alcanet.com.au [203.62.196.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F129337B589 for ; Mon, 21 Feb 2000 17:05:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jeremyp@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au) Received: by border.alcanet.com.au id <115229>; Tue, 22 Feb 2000 12:00:02 +1100 Content-return: prohibited From: Peter Jeremy Subject: Re: Strange Spam In-reply-to: <4.1.20000221153114.00981950@mail.thegrid.net>; from madscientist@thegrid.net on Tue, Feb 22, 2000 at 11:15:47AM +1100 To: The Mad Scientist Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Message-Id: <00Feb22.120002est.115229@border.alcanet.com.au> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii References: <4.1.20000221153114.00981950@mail.thegrid.net> Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 12:00:01 +1100 Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 2000-Feb-22 11:15:47 +1100, The Mad Scientist wrote: > I don't think it's a substitution cipher at the word level. There's no reason why a word-level substitution cipher has to be one-to-one. Providing a number of choices for common words would make frequency analysis more time consuming (at the expense of a larger dictionary). > At the character >level, the text conforms more or less to frequencies of English text. Given a random list of English words, I would expect this. Peter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message