On Fri, 19 Apr 1996, Adam Shostack wrote:
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.
There are several serachable dictionaries on the web. That might be a good place to look for search code.
Adam
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