RE: VMs: Declaration of WAR against EVA

[Nick Pelling <incoming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Don,

At 23:26 04/03/03 -0700, Don Latham wrote:
> oh bother. I'll have to look into this further.

To work out the entropy (or the statistical properties in general) of a 
text (or a line, or a page), you need first to know what are atomic units 
of the stream of data.

However, canny code-makers knew by 1440 that if you could misdirect the eye 
away from seeing the stream in terms of its actual atomic units, most 
statistics-centric code-breaking methodologies - which we're still applying 
today, though computer-assisted - simply wouldn't even begin to work.

Basically, remember that no matter how accurate (or automated) your 
measurements, if you're measuring the wrong thing, you probably won't get 
very far. :-o

Cheers, .....Nick Pelling.....

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