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Thanks, Rene!
I guess what I was trying to stress is that there does not seem to be a
coherent attack at the VMS. A lot of ideas are floated, and die in the
ether.
Coming from the computing world I am used to people submitting ideas, and
the rest of the group proposing alternative solutions, suggestions, or debunking
the thought. Then a team of people work on making the best path to the
outcome. Issue logs are kept. Best practices.
What I would really like to see is a complete list of attacks being used
and the chain of thoughts that propel the attack forward - or scuttle it.
It seems we are a bunch of single units trying to attack the VMS one at a time,
in seclusion. Many people are redoing old work (which is sometimes very
valuable) and other people are working on attacks that might contain the one
clue that the other person needs to resolve a problem.
Personally, I find people sending suggestions/caveats very helpful ("Did
you think of how your solution might fail in case b?" - "Your attack is
interesting, but flawed in that ...."). There are a lot of great minds on
this list. It seems such a shame that they are all being used as
individual units rather than some powerful network.
****************************** Larry Roux Syracuse University lroux@xxxxxxx ******************************* >>> r_zandbergen@xxxxxxxxx 05/21/03 08:45AM >>> Re-reading what I wrote, I realise that it is less than clear: > - problem: there are far more than 10 VMs > characters, so what is the meaning of words > that are composed of combinations? > + Is every word which is a combination of the > number characters definitely a number? The numbers are a subset of the VMs script. There are characters that are not numbers and there are those that are. What to do with a word that is composed of characters from both sets? Essentially, the number characters must also represent letters. There are some problems with that, but there is a clear precedent: Greek. Greek astronomical texts do have numbers written in the Greek alphabet embedded in the text, but these are immediately recognisable as invalid words. This is certainly true for someone who can read Greek, but I have a feeling that the type of statistics that people have run on the VMs would also pick out these words. So, in the VMs, words that are numbers should probably be recognisable 'somehow', as being 'different'. Come to think of it, the first word of each herbal page would fit this category. Cheers, Rene __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo. http://search.yahoo.com ______________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, send mail to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxx with a body saying: unsubscribe vms-list |