Re: Brute Force attack on VMS

[Jacques Guy <jguy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I see another impossibility there.
Suppose that a brute force attack is
feasible. Now, of all the billions
of alternative decipherments it
produces, how do we tell which is
the right one, short of examining
them? Not only that, but since we
really do not know the language of
the VMS... it is like having ten
trillion roomfuls of monkeys hacking
away at typewriters and sifting 
through the results to find which
reproduces Shakespeare's works,
allowing for translations into 
other languages, from 12th-century
French to modern Georgian via Portuguese
as it will be spoken in Macao in 3800 AD!

Frogguy