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> 
>   Something to reflect upon, when thinking about decrypting a message
> using a key with a very large range, is the large number of possible
> decryptions that may result.  Obviously, most of the decryptions
> when using a random key will be garbage.  However, what's intriguing
> is the thought that some of the random keys will produce random
> interesting messages.
> Bob Devine
> [ encrypting my name produces 13013...:-)]

The whole strength of the "one time pad" cryptosystem (the only publically
known, provably secure against all attacks cryptosystem) is based on that 
fact - a cipher can be decrypted into any of 2**n plaintexts (for an
n bit message) and all are equally plausible plaintexts, given the
cipher.