Computerized OTP (was 5th AMENDMENT & DECRYPTION)

Eric Hughes hughes at soda.berkeley.edu
Tue Jan 26 19:36:42 PST 1993


>thug at phantom.com (Murdering Thug) writes,
>> (e.g.: no runs of 0's or 1's longer than
>> 5 bits).

>Cool!  You've managed to weaken the one time pad enough for someone to 
>crack it!  

Taking 6-graph statistics, we seen that the entropy is 5.95, where it
should be 6.00.  Or in other words, .992 bits of entropy per bit
symbol.  That's not good.

Eric






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