From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Feb 21 16:34:32 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mta3.rcsntx.swbell.net (mta3.rcsntx.swbell.net [151.164.30.27]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4DA5737B5EC for ; Mon, 21 Feb 2000 16:34:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jbryant@ppp-207-193-186-58.kscymo.swbell.net) Received: from ppp-207-193-186-58.kscymo.swbell.net ([207.193.186.58]) by mta3.rcsntx.swbell.net (Sun Internet Mail Server sims.3.5.1999.09.16.21.57.p8) with ESMTP id <0FQB003KR2OYND@mta3.rcsntx.swbell.net> for freebsd-chat@freebsd.org; Mon, 21 Feb 2000 18:29:25 -0600 (CST) Received: (from jbryant@localhost) by ppp-207-193-186-58.kscymo.swbell.net (8.9.3/8.8.5) id SAA79655; Mon, 21 Feb 2000 18:29:20 -0600 (CST) Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2000 18:29:10 -0600 (CST) From: Jim Bryant Subject: Re: Strange Spam In-reply-to: <4.1.20000221153114.00981950@mail.thegrid.net> To: madscientist@thegrid.net (The Mad Scientist) Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Reply-To: kc5vdj@swbell.net Message-id: <200002220029.SAA79655@ppp-207-193-186-58.kscymo.swbell.net> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Windows: R00LZ!@# MS-Winbl0wz DR00LZ!@# X-files: The truth is that the X-Files is fiction X-Republican: The best kind!!! X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT #8: Sat Oct 30 00:56:56 CDT 1999 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In reply: > I did some quick frequency analysis of the spam. I don't think it's a > substitution cipher at the word level. Each word occurs only once except > for 'Clarence' and 'chatting' which appears twice each. At the character > level, the text conforms more or less to frequencies of English text. I > don't have a German or Danish frequency table handy, and the spelling of > Mathematik seems to suggest that one should look at those comparisons. It > could be some form of stenography if it is even anything cryptographic. My > guess would be a content fooler. I can't begin to guess why someone would > send such a document. I pasted the first five or so words into > www.dogpile.com and got mostly wordlists, porn sites and seemingly > non-related sites. (AltaVista produced it's usual overkill of 1,102,396 > documents.) A subsitution pad at the word-level doesn't necessarily mean that words have to repeat. jim -- All opinions expressed are mine, if you | "I will not be pushed, stamped, think otherwise, then go jump into turbid | briefed, debriefed, indexed, or radioactive waters and yell WAHOO !!! | numbered!" - #1, "The Prisoner" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ KC5VDJ - HF to 23cm KC5VDJ@NW0I.#NEKS.KS.USA.NOAM kc5vdj@swbell.net IC-706MkII - IC-T81A - HTX-202 - HTX-212 - HTX-404 - KPC3+ - PK-232MBX/DSP ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ET has one helluva sense of humor, always anal-probing right-wing schizos! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message