Anonglish (was: Re: Authenticating Meat)

[John Kelsey]

At 03:42 PM 4/28/03 +0100, Peter Fairbrother wrote:
>If you have perfect compression, and you encrypt a message which has been
>compressed, any decryption will look sensible.

You do understand that building this kind of compressor implies passing the 
Turing test, right?  For the messages to be sensible, they have to have 
some underlying meaning that makes sense.  This isn't just compression in 
the sense of fast implementations of statistical models of text....

>Peter Fairbrother

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