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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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