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Article #3684Re: Encryption of Hoffman coded text
From: John Eaton
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1987 20:44
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1987 20:44
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<<<<> > It seems to me that Hoffman coding makes the plaintext look more 'random' > and, so, less amenable to statistical attack. Is this so? ---------- I suspect that most compression techniques are not very effective when used on an already compressed file. If so you simply compress the decrypted bytes and only examine those keys that don't save a lot of bytes. John Eaton !hplabs!hp-pcd!john
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!rutgers!sri-spam!ames!sdcsvax!ucsdhub!hp-sdd!hplabs!hp-pcd!hpcvlo!john From: john@hpcvlo.HP.COM (John Eaton) Newsgroups: sci.crypt Subject: Re: Encryption of Hoffman coded text Message-ID: <1290004@hpcvlo.HP.COM> Date: Wed, 12-Aug-87 16:44:33 EDT Article-I.D.: hpcvlo.1290004 Posted: Wed Aug 12 16:44:33 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 16-Aug-87 01:46:37 EDT References: <3515@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> Organization: Hewlett-Packard Co., Corvallis, OR, USA Lines: 11