Re: Brute Force attack on VMS

["Gabriel Landini" <G.Landini@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 31 Aug 2000, at 11:31, Anders, Claus wrote:
>   This Book is written in chinese 
>  gives 
>   Tikv Bpqn it wskwxjt io cikqixk ...
>  where I simply replace the nth char. in the word with same letter+n
> in the alphabet (with an one to one char mapping). 

Shouldn't this be:
Ujlw Cqto ju xtlxyku jp djlrjyl ?
I mean starting with the position '1'?

I wonder what the character distribution and the entropy of this 
would be. Each word is always written the same, but the word 
construction is completely different.

Does this encoding method have a name?

Cheers,
Gabriel