Re: VMs: Time to get hands dirty

[Gabriel Landini <G.Landini@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Jacques Guy wrote:
> There aren't many weapons in the arsenal. If the VMs is a cipher, then
> it is a cipher which _lowers_ the entropy of the text. The only cipher
> that can do that (Jim Gillogly, please correct me) is a cipher that
> encodes single characters of the plain texts as sequences of characters,
> or whole words and sentences. E.g. cat -> cloakarmtower (c > cloak, etc.)
> Even so, the cipher has to be a bijection: c becomes cloak only and not
> other words. There is another possibility: lots of nulls.

Yes, and you also have the example of the dain daiin Latin, which makes a text 
which has even less entropy than the vms and is *more or less* decipherable 
in real time (it is lossy, though).
No, I do not think that the vms is encoded that way, because there are lots of 
other irregularities like the rigid structure of words, the weird statistics 
of the labels and so on.
Cheers,

Gabriel

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