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Date:      Tue, 22 Feb 2000 12:00:01 +1100
From:      Peter Jeremy <peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au>
To:        The Mad Scientist <madscientist@thegrid.net>
Cc:        freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Strange Spam
Message-ID:  <00Feb22.120002est.115229@border.alcanet.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <4.1.20000221153114.00981950@mail.thegrid.net>; from madscientist@thegrid.net on Tue, Feb 22, 2000 at 11:15:47AM %2B1100
References:  <4.1.20000221153114.00981950@mail.thegrid.net>

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On 2000-Feb-22 11:15:47 +1100, The Mad Scientist <madscientist@thegrid.net> 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


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