** Reply to note from Adam Shostack <adam@lighthouse.homeport.org> 04/19/96 8:02pm -0500 = = = Does anyone have some code that will search a dictionary, and = tell me *quickly* if an arbitrary chunk of text is in the dictionary? = Pre-indexing steps are fine, as is using big chunks of disk for hash = tables. The point of course, is to check arbitrary possible plaintext = that a test decryption produces. = for this purpose, the OLD unix code starting with V6 20 years ago has a speller with a fairly comprehensive dictionary. The code is small. about 15 years ago I broke it out and rewrote it as linkable libraries to handle multiple dictionaries. I know I have the code somewhere --probably on MIPS 2000 tape or Sun 3 tape... the code also contains excellent prefix/suffix codes, etc. I do not remember spending a great deal of time doing the conversion, and it was straighforward to convert it to a callable library (or even a .dll). attila -- Obscenity is a crutch for inarticulate motherfuckers. Fuck the CDA! cc: Cypherpunks <cypherpunks@toad.com>