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Article #3586Re: Languages
From: rotondo
Date: Fri, 15 May 1987 20:34
Date: Fri, 15 May 1987 20:34
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In article <18919@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> jmm@miro.Berkeley.EDU (James Moore) writes: > > Is knowing the original language of an encrypted message ever necessary > for attempting to decipher it? It certainly is; for example, suppose you have a substitution cipher and you want to do a frequency analysis to find the most common letters. Which plaintext letters are most common varies from language to language. -- Scott
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!sri-unix!sri-spam!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!ernie.Berkeley.EDU!rotondo From: rotondo@ernie.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP Newsgroups: sci.crypt Subject: Re: Languages Message-ID: <18924@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> Date: Fri, 15-May-87 16:34:15 EDT Article-I.D.: ucbvax.18924 Posted: Fri May 15 16:34:15 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 16-May-87 15:35:32 EDT References: <18919@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> Sender: usenet@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: rotondo@ernie.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP (Scott Rotondo) Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 10