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In article <1992Aug5.020416.8477@Princeton.EDU> dla@athena (Don Alvarez) writes:
>In article <1992Aug4.180852.11447@kpc.com> hollasch@kpc.com (Steve
>Hollasch) writes:
>...
>> I was playing around the other day with developing a transcripted
>> shorthand that is fairly secure.
>...
>> What I ended up with last night is basically a simple substitution
>> cipher with some tricks tossed in.
>...
>> So are there other tricks for developing such an encryption?  Are
>> there any references for this sort of thing?
>
>Anyway, I seem to recall the statement that simply removing all the
>letter e's raises the security quite considerably.

	If anybody finds a copy of the novel "Gadsby", let me know.
	It was written without using "e" (the letter, not the
	exponential function).  The vowel distribution is very different
	I can't remember what the changes were offhand, William Friedmann
	checked it out and that is good enough for me.

>
>(n.b.: I suspect that's sort of like saying adding 10^-4 to a number
>like 10^-5 raises the value of that number quite a lot ... it's true,
>but if you're on a scale of 0 - 10, who cares?)
>
	Alec Chambers