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Subject: Re: Strange Spam
From: Peter Jeremy (peter.jeremy
alcatel.com.au)Date: Mon Feb 21 2000 - 19:00:01 CST
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On 2000-Feb-22 11:15:47 +1100, The Mad Scientist <madscientistthegrid.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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