On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, Tom wrote:
check back in the archives, early october last year. you'll find an extensive discussion and several posted algorithms which - while not perfect - should work well enough, especially in the kind of controlled, closed environment that the original poster is working with.
Which of the three list archives? I'm subscribers to all three of the major lists you sent this to and NONE of them (especially if you're talking about the moronic discussion on cypherpunks from a couple of months ago - where NOTHING, especially no working algorithms were discussed) have ever demonstrated a single algorithm that can decide if an arbitrary block of symbols is encrypted or not (unless of course you know a priori by pre-defining it, which isn't the same problem as you describe at all). Ah, now you change the rules of the game with 'controlled environment'. That wasnt' in your first description. I told you there was no such algorithm. ps shooting the can-sat down isn't the point, and to answer your question, a lot more than it costs to put them up there. ____________________________________________________________________ Before a larger group can see the virtue of an idea, a smaller group must first understand it. "Stranger Suns" George Zebrowski The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage@ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------