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Article #1Re: letter frequencies, the final episode
From: Classic Ted
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1992 03:04
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1992 03:04
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In article <7371@tekig7.PEN.TEK.COM> rbeville@tekig5.pen.tek.com (Robert E Beville) writes: The Classics on letter frequency are _SECRET AND URGENT_, by Fletcher Pratt, Blue Ribbon Books, 1943 ^^^^ Cryptography The Science of Secret Writing, 1943. ^^^^ Codes and Secret Writing.... Cryptanalysis by Helen F. Gaines ... alll of these were written before computers were popular and thus are entirely suspect. i imagine none of them mention that he most common character is a space (which it certainly is in real english text). in fact, the classic source for byte frequencies is plaintext of the sort you are looking for.
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Newsgroups: sci.crypt Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!europa.asd.contel.com!darwin.sura.net!spool.mu.edu!umn.edu!lynx!nmsu.edu!opus!ted From: ted@nmsu.edu (Classic Ted) Subject: Re: letter frequencies, the final episode In-Reply-To: rbeville@tekig5.pen.tek.com's message of 22 Oct 92 23:08:58 GMT Message-ID: <TED.92Oct26200427@lole.nmsu.edu> Sender: usenet@nmsu.edu Reply-To: ted@nmsu.edu Organization: Computing Research Lab References: <7371@tekig7.PEN.TEK.COM> Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1992 03:04:27 GMT Lines: 21