How do I know if its encrypted?
Dale Harrison AEGIS
daleh at ix.netcom.com
Wed Jan 11 22:32:15 PST 1995
You wrote:
>
>The context this was being discussed in, was trying to make _plaintext_
>look like _ciphertext_. The operator of a data haven or remailer might
>hypothetically want to ensure that all text he dealt with was
encrypted.
>So your method wouldn't do anything in that area.
The discussion was one of whether you could distinguish plaintext from
cyphertext by doing a statitical analysis of the datastream, i.e. can
you tell one from the other without actually reading each message. The
answer is no.
Dale H.
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