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Article #2765Re: Automatic lang. determination of titles/subj. lines?
From: Steven Bellovin
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 16:06
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 16:06
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In article <2216@blue.cis.pitt.edu>, wbdst+@pitt.edu (William B Dwinnell) writes: > Actually, it would be interesting to know whether anyone has letter, digram > and trigram frequency tables for various languages, Anyeone? Helen Gaines's book ``Elementary cryptanalysis; a study of ciphers and their solution'' has some tables for other languages, as I recall. Note, though, that there's no one table for any given language; you have to have statistics based on the kind of traffic you're looking for. To give an obvious example, recent traffic in this newsgroup would show a weird distribution of the digraphs ``pg'' and ``gp''.
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Newsgroups: sci.crypt Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!linac!att!att!dptg!ulysses!ulysses!smb From: smb@research.att.com (Steven Bellovin) Subject: Re: Automatic lang. determination of titles/subj. lines? Message-ID: <1993Jan21.160618.9329@ulysses.att.com> Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 16:06:18 GMT References: <1993Jan20.163448.17017@daimi.aau.dk> <2216@blue.cis.pitt.edu> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 10