Re: VMs: Time to get hands dirty

[Bruce Grant <bgrant@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Jacques Guy wrote:
> > 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.

Couldn't the insertion of null characters have this effect too? For example, if
you took Latin text and intermixed some additional (meaningless) characters, say
the digits 0 .. 9, it seems like that would also lower the entropy.

Bruce Grant

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