FAQ? how to set up a cross-platform encrypted mailing list/forum

Jim Choate ravage at ssz.com
Wed Feb 21 15:58:18 PST 2001



On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, David Honig wrote:

> 1. look for appropriate headers
> and/or
> 2. convert to binary and measure the entropy of the sample.  Nothing written
> by human hand comes close to pure noise.

But the orginal problem placed no constraints on the encryption used by
the source.

Not being a 'human' language is not sufficient to prove it is encrypted,
nor is it equivalent to the original problem.

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